Excoriated Papules Quotes & Sayings

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers. — Jackie Collins

I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break. — Peter V. Brett

The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information. — George Polya

She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty. — Jack Finney

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you. — Paul Tsongas

You need to be in fellowship of a church ... If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours. — Billy Graham

Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious. — Patrick Weekes

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation. — William P. Leahy

Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray. — Jim Cymbala

Then again, no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it. — Neil Strauss

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun