Amintire Lucian Quotes & Sayings

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. — Walter Salles

Male rats don't experience the hormonal changes that trigger maternal behavior in female rats. They never normally participate in infant care. Yet put a baby rat in a cage with a male adult and after a few days he will be caring for the baby almost as if he were its mother. He'll pick it up, nestle it close to him as a nursing female would, keep the baby rat clean and comforted, and even build a comfy nest for it.29 The parenting circuits are there in the male brain, even in a species in which paternal care doesn't normally exist.30 If a male rat, without even the aid of a William Sears baby-care manual, can be inspired to parent then I would suggest that the prospects for human fathers are pretty good. — Cordelia Fine

If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. — Stephen King

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. — Jennifer Lopez

Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found. — Mike Dooley

I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations. — Jean Chretien

As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening. — Lee Hirsch

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king. — Jeremy Grantham

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. — Mata Amritanandamayi

When the water boiled, Michiko poured it into the pot of green leaves and we both waited in the thick silence. I felt strangely calmed by this simple ritual I had seen my mother do many hundred times before. It was all that seemed to make sense in this place and I held on to it as if I were drowning. — Gail Tsukiyama

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. — Lucretia Mott

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. — Ayn Rand

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? — Ron Fournier

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be. — Chuck Palahniuk

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish. — Rick Yancey