Blipped Family Quotes & Sayings

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. — Jon Bon Jovi

Nesse's research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it's stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. Nesse believes that depression may be an adaptive mechanism meant to prevent us from falling victim to blind optimism - and squandering resources on the wrong goals.11 It's to our evolutionary advantage not to waste time and energy on goals we can't realistically achieve. And so when we have no clear way to make productive progress, our neurological systems default to a state of low energy ... — Jane McGonigal

Thanks is what multiplies the joy and makes any life large, and I hunger for it. — Ann Voskamp

It is always a problem to know what an image means. — Frederick Wiseman

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. — Jodi Picoult

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. — Tom Brokaw

And all he'd really bruised was her pride. — Nora Roberts

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound. — Tim Kreider

the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive. We've seen the same patterns repeated on three different sites, with different users and different experiences: men, women, free, subscription-only, casual, serious, "urban" demographics, and more "mainstream." All told, the research set represents a large chunk of the young adults in this country, and the data uniformly shows non-blacks discount African American profiles. It's not a problem caused by a small cluster of "ugly" black users or by a small group of unreformed racists throwing off an otherwise regular pattern. — Christian Rudder

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God." — Pablo Picasso

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. — Maria Edgeworth