Callerid4u Quotes & Sayings

For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man. — Northrop Frye

Japanese researchers blindfolded a group of students and told them their right arms were being rubbed with a poison ivy plant. Afterward, all 13 of the students' arms reacted with the classic symptoms of poison ivy: itching, boils, and redness. Not surprising until you find out that the plant used for the study wasn't poison ivy at all, just a harmless shrub. The students' beliefs were actually strong enough to create the biological effects of poison ivy, even though no such plant had touched them. Then, on the students' other arm, the researchers rubbed actual poison ivy, but told them it was a harmless plant. Even though all 13 students were highly allergic, only two of them broke out into the poison ivy rash! — Chris Estes

Every 30 seconds, it transmitted portions of [a Chopin Polonaise] to tell the world that the capital was still in Polish hands. Angered by the unexpected setback, the German High Command decided to pound the stubborn citadel into submission. In round-the-clock raids, bombers knocked out flourmills, gasworks, power plants and reservoirs, then sowed the residential areas with incendiaries. One witness, passing scenes of carnage, enumerated the horrors: 'Everywhere corpses, wounded humans, dead horses . . . and hastily-dug graves.' . . . Finally food ran out, and famished Poles, as one man put it, 'cut off flesh as soon as a horse fell, leaving only the skeleton.' On September 28, Warsaw Radio replaced the polonaise with a funeral dirge.15 — Norman Davies

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. — Walter Savage Landor

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. — Hjalmar Branting

The hot, stagnant air, only marginally cooler without the sun's heat, draped us in its sticky blanket. — Bobby Adair

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself. — Gloria Feldt

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. — Leo Tolstoy