Contienda In English Quotes & Sayings

The nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival ... it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings. — Peter Singer

The sky was pure opal now. — Oscar Wilde

Like heartbreak, these unpredictable crises are not something you should live in fear of. Perpetual fear won't protect you. Fear is not a citronella candle; scary life happenings are not mosquitoes. They happen in ways we can't predict, control or understand. The only guaranteed outcome of feeling scared all the time is that you will feel scared all the time. — Kelly Williams Brown

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. — Robert Kagan

Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable. — Barbara Bothwell

Fanny felt enlarged by his attentiveness. Was — Nancy Horan

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. — Nikki Sixx

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. — Charles Spurgeon

If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people. — Caroline Kennedy