Destabiliser Quotes & Sayings

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources. — Jonathan Evison

One of the surprises that has shaken the very foundations of neuroscience is the discovery that the brain is actually "plastic," or moldable. This means that the brain physically changes throughout the course of our lives, not just in childhood, as we had previously assumed. What molds our brain? Experience. Even into old age, our experiences actually change the physical structure of the brain. — Daniel J. Siegel

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been 'outrun' by fear rather than having 'run out' of heart. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. — Abraham Lincoln

The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop. — H. Alazhar

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him. — Jamaica Kincaid

Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin. — William Shakespeare

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. — John Irving

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
— Merce Cunningham

I like to think of myself as a 'live life to its fullest' type of guy. — Shaun Sipos

There was only one thing I could do to ease the pain. I turned to the only four guys who'd never let me down. The only four guys who'd never broken my heart, who'd never disappointed me.
John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Anybody who has ever clung to a song like a musical life raft will understand. Or put on a song to bring out an emotion or a memory. Or had a soundtrack playing in their head to drown out a conversation or a scene. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith. — Edward Wilmot Blyden

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help. — Irving Stone

You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps ... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. — Thomas Jefferson