Gradualism And Punctuated Quotes & Sayings

Ideas - and where facts were scarce, directive questions. Other — David Quammen

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. — Paula Poundstone

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh — Mark Lawrence

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife. — Steve Irwin

Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We humans always seem to take a manipulative posture. No matter what the particulars of the situation, or the subject matter, we prepare ourselves to say whatever we want in order to prevail in the conversation. Each of us seeks to find some way to control and thus to remain on top in the encounter. If we are successful, or our viewpoint prevails, then rather than feel weak, we receive a psychological boost. — James Redfield

Forgive yourself for the child you were unable to save, Darius, and praise God for the many who are alive today because of your actions. — Karen Witemeyer

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation. — Stephen Jay Gould

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas. — J. P. Guilford

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing. — Sylvia Plath

The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. — James Dashner

I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity. — Veronica Roth

We'd been bankrupt since we'd left home; we'd secure our own society. Retirement was an afterlife we didn't believe in and that we expected yesterday. — Kristopher Jansma