Baptistina Quotes & Sayings

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel. — Khaled Hosseini

He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were studying the laws of repentance together, the lodger burst from his room. "What!" he said. "The atheists guzzles his whiskey and eats pork and wallows with women all his life long, and then repents the day before he dies and stands guiltless? While I spend a lifetime trying to please God?" My grandfather pointed to the book. "So it is written," he said gently. - "Written!" the lodger roared. "There are books and there are books." And he slammed back into his room.
The lodger's outrage seemed highly logical. My grandfather pointed out afterward that cancelling the past does not turn it into a record of achievement. It leaves it blank, a waste of spilled years. A man had better return, he said, while time remains to write a life worth scanning. And since no man knows his death day, the time to get a grip on his life is the first hour when the impulse strikes him. — Herman Wouk

Inside, Lucifer chuckled with glee. As usual, things were going along as planned. His plan. His hellcat minion was about to meet the mother of his future litters. Or get enslaved by a bunch of sirens and turned into a stud. Either way, his will would be done. And the ranks of his demonic legion would swell. — Eve Langlais

I must accept responsibility even though I had no power as foreign minister because it was a dictator state. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter." — Carl Hart

You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can't walk around letting people think you're stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it's fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they've been insulted. (Mark)
Yeah, that's a twofer there. You get away with it and then they're twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. — Ami Bera

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything. — Paul Henderson

You will come across few creatures that cannot be successfully defeated by the application of sufficient blunt trauma. — Cassandra Clare

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. — Robert Burns

It only takes one man to make a woman a fool. — Barbara Samuel

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl. — James Cromwell