Cornering Drywall Quotes & Sayings

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical. — Carl Sagan

The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide. — Wu Guoguang

To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground. — Alyssa Tillmon

It felt - nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos - that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was no smell, no texture, no temperature to it. It had as much substance as a politician's promise. — Patrick Thomas

Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise. — Mary Jo Putney

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in. — Oliver Reed

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. — Winston Churchill

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart. — Charles Spurgeon

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met ... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. — Tracy Kidder

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing. — Rachel Hartman

Have you been kissed before?"
"I don't know whether to say yes or no. Which answer will make you do it again?"
"Oh, I'm going to do it again." His thumb stroked her cheek. "Just wanted to know how slow to take things."
"A little faster would be fine. — Tessa Dare

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it. — Sanjay Dutt

I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — William Cowper