Degradative Quotes & Sayings

Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn. — Frank A. Clark

A basic framework for happiness:

- Time spent daily, hopefully in a job that challenges us, but also in our after-hours hobbies.

- An ability to show ourselves that we are making consistent progress and improvements toward a specified goal.

- Energy and attention dedicated each day to an activity that puts us in the zone. — Steve Kamb

We know death; it's life we don't know. — Marty Rubin

Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria's effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied genetic system) shows that most helpful mutations degrade genes. What's more, as a group the mutations are incoherent, meaning that they are not adding up to some new system. They are just small changes - mostly degradative - in pre-existing, unrelated genes. The take-home lesson is that this is certainly not the kind of process we would expect to build the astonishingly elegant machinery of the cell. If random mutation plus selective pressure substantially trashes the human genome, why should we think that it would be a constructive force in the long term? There is no reason to think so. — Michael J. Behe

In six pages, I can't even say Hello. — James A. Michener

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all ... — Merle Shain

Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so. — Frederick Lenz

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business. — Katie Holmes

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful. — Spencer W. Kimball

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them. — Michael Vartan

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. — John Brunner