Draconis Combine Quotes & Sayings

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

Unlike some other immune-system gene families, whose genes are all clustered together on one chromosome, the 10 human TLR genes are distributed between five chromosomes. This reflects the ancient, invertebrate origin of the Toll-like receptors, which were present before the two genome-wide duplications that occurred during the early evolution of the vertebrates around 500 million years ago. On the basis of sequence similarities, the Toll-like receptors form four evolutionary lineages (I, II, III, and IV) that are descendants of the four Toll-like receptor loci formed by these two ancient genome duplications. — Peter Parham

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. — Herbert Stein

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content.
-Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) — Naomi Novik

Fear is only a four letter word. — Jeff Hardy

He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV? — Thomas Harris

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag. — Huey Long

Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people. — Sunday Adelaja

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand

Diamond being the toughest thing on the face of earth is still the most prettiest object; pretty is not always being honeyed. — Priyansh Shah

Why must we be always seeking for the lost Child? Why must we be always feeling the pain of loss? If we did not, we should not realise that our idols are not God, are not Christ. Bad as they are, they match our limitations; and if they could content us, we should never know the real beauty of Christ:we should not become whole. — Caryll Houselander

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music. — Oliver Sacks

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet. — Doris Roberts