Dissector Forceps Quotes & Sayings

[A]s moral philosophers through the ages have pointed out, a philosophy of living based on "Not everyone, just me!" falls apart as soon as one sees oneself from an objective standpoint as a person just like others. It is like insisting that "here," the point in space one happens to be occupying at the moment, is a special place in the universe. — Steven Pinker

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God. — Al Green

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. — Malcolm Forbes

Many cooks and food writers have nothing but negative things to say about people who have dietary restrictions or preferences. Quite often it's suggested that you just make what you want to make, and everyone can find something to eat, most likely. But if feeding people around your table is about connecting with them more than it is about showing off your menu or skills, isn't it important to cook in such a way that their preferences or restrictions are honored? — Shauna Niequist

Jealousy is not a result of love. It is a result of crossed relationship boundaries. Love and relationships should not be confused. — Julieanne O'Connor

Do more sharing than shopping. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The first look I got of August, well, it made me want to cover my eyes and run away screaming. — R.J. Palacio

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it. — Michael Jackson

Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them. Lovers, then, "die" into their union with one another as a soul "dies" into its union with God. And so here, at the very heart of community life, we find not something to sell as in the public market but this momentous giving. If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing ... — Wendell Berry

To make one, there must be two. — W. H. Auden

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process. — Joschka Fischer

When you lie about yourself, is it to appear closer to or farther away from the middle of the bell curve? — Sheena Iyengar

Thiel's law": a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. — Peter Thiel

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie