Daimones Mythology Quotes & Sayings

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes. — Barbara Ehrenreich

You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it. — Mercedes Lackey

A rigour passed over him,
blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. — Robertson Davies

Beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's — Louisa May Alcott

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear. — William Gurnall

Twitter encourage dialogue and the more you engage with your followers, the more you will get visibility, have more followers and your messages will reach more people. — Carmen Lascu

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out. — Lester Bowie

Khoruts gave me a memorable example of how behavior can be covertly manipulated by microorganisms. The parasite Toxoplasma infects rats but needs to make its way into a cat's gut to reproduce. The parasite's strategy for achieving this goal is to alter the rat brain such that the rodent is now attracted to cat urine. Rat walks right up to cat, gets killed, eaten. If you saw the events unfold, Khoruts continued, you'd scratch your head and go, What is wrong with that rat? Then he smiled. Do you think Republicans have different flora? — Mary Roach

Billy's native arrogance might well have been a gift of miffed genes, then come to splendid definition through the tests to which a street like Broadway puts a young man on the make: tests designed to refine a breed, enforce a code, exclude all simps and gumps, and deliver into the city's life a man worthy of functioning in this age of nocturnal supremacy. Men like Billy Phelan, forged in the brass of Broadway, send, in the time of their splendor, telegraphic statements of mission: I, you bums, am a winner. And that message, however devoid of Christ-like other-cheekery, dooms the faint-hearted Scottys of the night, who must sludge along, never knowing how it feels to spill over with the small change of sassiness, how it feels to leave the spillover on the floor, more where that came from, pal. Leave it for the sweeper. — William Kennedy

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make. — Slade Combs

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome. — Mahatma Gandhi