Centauro Quotes & Sayings

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. — John Dewey

It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading. — Augustine Of Hippo

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space. — Ronald Coase

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me. — Sara Bareilles

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. ... But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years. — Joan D. Chittister

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up. — Ethel Waters

Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution. — James Dashner

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think. — Jason Bay

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. — Alice Walker

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency. — Margaret Mead

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting. — Shawn Wayans

I might suffocate you tonight with a pillow, Kingsley said — Tiffany Reisz

Butes also told Phyllis that her virginity had also been offered to Helios & that the fate of the terrible Typhon now hung on the Battle of the Virgins, or rather, of their virginities, hers & Atalanta's. And it appeared that, as it stood, Typhon would lose, in view of the difference in age of the two virgins.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong