Bottema Construction Quotes & Sayings

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten. — Temple Grandin

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. — Charlie Hunnam

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. — Teresa Of Avila

Today, and this very moment, is a gift. — Robin S. Sharma

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust. — Robert C. Solomon

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — W. H. Auden

When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever. — Thomas Hooker

I want to dress well. I want to look good. — Caitlyn Jenner

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder