Girardian Quotes & Sayings

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat. — John Bunyan

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available. — Susumu Tonegawa

Never begrudge others their happiness. Who knows when happiness will be short lived? — Nancy B. Brewer

I always get very calm with baseball. — Paul Simon

You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true. — James Carville

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success. — Malcolm Gladwell

Obvious choices for the east window: the two bloody bargains on which civilization claimed to be based. The bargain, Rivers though, looking at Abraham and Isaac. The one on which all patriarchal societies were founded. If you, who are young and strong, will obey me, who am old and weak, even to the extent of being prepared to sacrifice your life, then in the course of time you will peacefully inherit, and be able to exact the same obedience from your sons. Only we're breaking the bargain, Rivers thought. All over northern France, at this very moment, in trenches and dugouts and flooded shell-holes, the inheritors were dying, not one by one, while old men, and women of all ages, gathered together and sang hymns. — Pat Barker