Evolutionre Quotes & Sayings

Shannon smiled. "It's snowing. Just a light snow, but look." In that moment, she felt like the snowflakes were angels on wings, and she had witnessed a miracle of nature. — Terry Spear

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages. — Philip Glass

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. — Robertson Davies

-I will bathe in vinegar, down some raw eggs, and start looking for a wasp nest ASAP to put on my head.
-I do not understand this.
-To reverse the leanings of the heart. Ancient family wisdom.
-Ah. Very good. In my family, we just suffer. — Jandy Nelson

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. — Ayn Rand

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another. — Gail Sheehy

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink? — Marilyn French

Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die. — Steven Levy

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. — Jennifer Ehle

The great festival of Lughnasa was held at Carmun once every three years. The site of Carmun was eerie. In a land of wild forest and bog, it was an open grassy space that stretched, green and empty, halfway to the horizon. Lying some distance west of the point where, if you were following it upstream, the Liffey's course began to retreat eastwards on the way to its source in the Wicklow Mountains, the place was absolutely flat, except for some mounds in which ancestral chiefs were buried. The festival lasted a week. There were areas reserved for food and livestock markets, and another where fine clothes were sold; but the most important quarter was where a large racetrack was laid out on the bare turf. — Edward Rutherfurd

When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough. — Rebecca McCann

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life
it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. — Sigmund Freud

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things. — Columbus Short

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole. — Mario Cuomo