Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Book Quotes & Sayings

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

This sense of the brain's remarkable plasticity, its capacity for the most striking adaptations, not least in the special (and often desperate) circumstances of neural or sensory mishap, has come to dominate my own perception of my patients and their lives. So much so, indeed, that I am sometimes moved to wonder whether it may not be necessary to redefine the very concepts of "health" and "disease," to see these in terms of the ability of the organism to create a new organization and order, one that fits its special, altered disposition and needs, rather than in the terms of a rigidly defined "norm. — Oliver Sacks

Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. — Richard Rohr

The horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand — M.R. Carey

China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target. — Ma Jun

Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe. — Alwyn Hamilton

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present. — Jim Rohn

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals - something — Neal Stephenson

One must choose between loving women and knowing them. — Ninon De L'Enclos