General Adaptation Syndrome Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work. — Charles Babbage

Living a hard life with niggas whose loyalty was only for the streets, and never for a woman, was embedded in me. — Jessica N. Watkins

And I sit here alone and far from you and it's night and I'm reflecting on everything all around me and I am thinking of you. I saw it in your eyes, in your love, you too are swinging towards the depths of your own being in longer and longer circles. I saw happiness and pain in your eyes and reflections of the paradises lost and regained and lost again, that terrible loneliness and happiness, yes, and I reflect upon this and I think about you.
(from As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, 2000) — Jonas Mekas

Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it? — Kou Shibasaki

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. — Elizabeth Berg

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi. — Frank Rijkaard

He who lives well lives well hidden. — Rene Descartes

This is no place for a girl on fire. — Suzanne Collins

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears. — Stephen King

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. — Oliver Goldsmith

[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing
such as making love. — G.K. Chesterton

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. — Stephen Nachmanovitch