Botched By Nature Quotes & Sayings

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
And that which we do with the dead,
Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
What more of a man can be said? — Oliver Goldsmith

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers. — H.L. Mencken

BOOKS CHANGE LIVES. — Grace Burrowes

If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion. — Gregory Palamas

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves. — Marianne Williamson

He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote from their purpose it was to bring the faithful mask of reality onto the stage, will also be aware of the utterly opposite tendency of Euripides. Through him the everyday man forced his way from the spectators' seats onto the stage; the mirror in which formerly only grand and bold traits were represented now showed the painful fidelity that conscientiously reproduces even the botched outlines of nature. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics — Rachel Swaby

Life is just a series of choices. We try to always make the best ones, but really we're just settling for the lesser of two evils. Or at least trying to. — S.L. Jennings

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them. — Joyce Meyer

When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends ... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that. — Lilly Singh

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja. — Evan Wright

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. — George Meredith

If mankind is to advance there must be installed permanently at the head of its columns proud instances of courage. Acts of daring light the pages of history and the soul of man. The sunrise is an act of daring. To venture, to defy, to persevere, to be true to one's self, to grapple with destiny, to dismay calamity by not being afraid of it, to challenge now unrighteous powers and now victory run wild, to stand fast and hold firm - these are the examples that the peoples need, the spark that electrifies them. — Victor Hugo

This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail. — Beatrix Potter