Ameliorations Quotes & Sayings

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. — Paul Bloom

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly. — Kylie Bax

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now. — Jay Kay

It's not going well! — Deyth Banger

There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most. At the same time, we obviously yearn for contact, and I fear what would happen if we were cut off from a distinctive, on-the-ground relationship with the past. — Craig Childs

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent? — Patrick Macnee

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story? — Robert Charles Wilson

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun. — Kylie Bax

Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce? — Tiffany Reisz

It was the silliest victory of her entire life. — Jennifer Egan

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers. — Barack Obama

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne. — H.L. Mencken

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin