Getsandwhirlz Quotes & Sayings

Be in the world but not of the world.' The words are from Jesus. But I have not the slightest idea how to accomplish that or even if it's possible. The world will always poke you in the chest with its index finger. — Francisco X Stork

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that. — Andy Stanley

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. — William Shakespeare

To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM. — Sam Kean

So Paley was right in saying not just that Design was a wonderful thing to explain, but also that Design took Intelligence. All he missed - and Darwin provided - was the idea that this Intelligence could be broken into bits so tiny and stupid that they didn't count as intelligence at all, and then distributed through space and time in a gigantic, connected network of algorithmic process. — Daniel C. Dennett

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton

The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore were the only sounds audible. The wind had dropped with the sun, and in all that vast world of branches nothing stirred. Any moment, it seemed, the woodland gods, who are to be worshipped in silence and loneliness, might stretch their mighty and terrific outlines among the trees. — Algernon Blackwood

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world. — Conor Oberst