Controlamos Quotes & Sayings

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.
(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866) — Charles Darwin

Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn't think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead. — Deb Caletti

The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars? — Kami Garcia

I'm crying again. I cry so often now that sometimes I don't even realize it until the tears are already streaming down my cheeks. — Kim Holden

Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. — George Raft