Concomitance Quotes & Sayings

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions ... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity." — Erasmus Darwin

It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.' — Sherry Turkle

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived. — Irvin D. Yalom

A women can hold a grudge for a long time. The longer it simmers, the longer the grudge lasts and I advise you to get this straightened out quick like fashion. — Georgia Cates

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does ... to gain a hearing for the gospel. — Reggie McNeal

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical. — Jessica Zafra

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. — Samuel Hopkins Adams