Formalit S Entr E Belgique Quotes & Sayings

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. — Lao-Tzu

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love. — Amy Chua

Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy ... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them. — Angela Davis

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about. — John Darnielle

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? — Soren Kierkegaard

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be. — Swami Vivekananda

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back. — Travis Bradberry

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel. — Yasmin Mogahed

Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others. — Barbara Rose

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta. — Diogenes

Life wasn't for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting.
But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance of acquired characters. Whatever one generation learns, it can pass to the next by writing, instruction, inculcation, ritual, tradition, and a host of methods that humans have developed to assure continuity in culture. Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, is an indirect process: genetic variation must first be available to construct an advantageous feature, and natural selection must then preserve it. Since genetic variation arises at random, not preferentially directed toward advantageous features, the Darwinian process works slowly. Cultural evolution is not only rapid; it is also readily reversible because its products are not coded in our genes. — Stephan Jay Gould

What's the matter?' She immediately started laughin. 'What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter! — Dan Brown