Apoditica Quotes & Sayings

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing ... Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia. — Dean Koontz

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better. — Eric Heiden

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered. — Thomas Sowell

Cruelty ... prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My troubles are over, and I am finally home. — Anna Sewell

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. — Alice Corbin Henderson

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually. — D.B. Jackson

Almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I — Mindy Kaling

Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.
Logan to Madeline — Lisa Kleypas

That's justice," she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde. — Michael Connelly

Well ... can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?-Tess (pg 59) — Marie Lu