Everymans Journey Quotes & Sayings

Though it accounts for only 2 percent of the body's mass, it uses up a fifth of all the oxygen we breathe, and it's where a quarter of all our glucose gets burned. The brain is the most energetically expensive piece of equipment in our body, and has been ruthlessly honed by natural selection to be efficient at the tasks for which it evolved. One might say that the whole point of our nervous system, from the sensory organs that feed information to the glob of neurons that interprets it, is to develop a sense of what is happening in the present and what will happen in the future, so that we can respond in the best possible way. Strip away the emotions, the philosophizing, the neuroses, and the dreams, and our brains, in the most reductive sense, are fundamentally prediction and planning machines. — Joshua Foer

Annabeth laced her fingers through his. In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful.
'We're together,' she reminded him. 'We'll get through this. — Rick Riordan

And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars. — Marisha Pessl

A radiant smile lit up her face as her eyes sparkled. His heart nearly stilled at the sight.
It took everything Carmine had in him not to fall to his knees right then and there and beg her to always looks at him that way. — J.M. Darhower

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new. — Matthew Perry

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die. — Rob Thurman

As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read — Bill Hall

I hate the word 'moist.' — Christine Teigen

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. — Richard Brookhiser

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. — Mo Yan

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul