Faculties Define Quotes & Sayings

To me, it is far nobler to create my own meaning derived from that around me, using my critical faculties, than to accept unquestioningly the meaning that a superdeity has enforced upon me. The same with beauty and the universe around us. There is something worth dwelling on in that notion that we don't need for a god to cause and define that universe - that beauty, that spectacle - when we are appreciating it. Whether it be an incredibly complex yet symmetrical mathematical equation, a butterfly's wings or the expansive Hubble space telescope pictures of nebulae and clouds of space dust and gases, there is much to marvel at in the universe. It's even more marvelous that there is no painter at nature's easel. — Jonathan MS Pearce

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have. — Ann Romney

On no account must you return back to the world — Sunday Adelaja

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect. — Derrek Lee

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. — James Madison

Modules of brain networks define communities of structurally and functionally related areas, but they do not represent or support discrete mental faculties. — Olaf Sporns

Love, after all, beats Death. Every time. — Dixie Lyle

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or month, but at an indefinite future period. — Charlotte Bronte

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy. — Jerry Bridges