Evaggelia Sklavenitis Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside. — Jasmine Warga

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. — Jack Welch

Dude," Braeden said and bit down on his knuckle. "You've gotta tap that." I laughed. "Been there, done that." "Then I gotta tap that."
-Braeden & Romeo — Cambria Hebert

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook. — Bill Cosby

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do. — Rupert Graves

The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all." — Daniel Dennett

An engaging discussion upon the nature of the soul, its defining qualities, the possibility it manifests a specific shape, the likelihood of its integrity beyond formaldehyde and flowers, speculation on its absence from an unfortunate sum of mortal beings since God, at the moment of creation, released into the universe a fixed number of souls to be recycled among a diminishing percentage of an exponentially expanding population, hence bodies without souls. — Stephen Wright

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse. — Tess Gerritsen