Herpetologists Quotes & Sayings

She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway. — Leisa Rayven

By a pair of herpetologists. It was titled Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction? — Elizabeth Kolbert

It's easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out. — Colleen Hoover

That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you know it was going to be the herpetologists who got there first. — Joe Roman

Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others. — Adam Smith

It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it. — Cornelia Funke

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it. — Red Adair

Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but one looked only for the general effect as produced by form, the other as produced by colour. — Joshua Reynolds

I'm not a nice man. Not a good one. And you won't like how I want to play. — Mina Carter

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear. — Herb Elliott

Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for beef, and all cattle emit greenhouse gases though enteric fermentation; the poop from industrially raised chickens poisons the Chesapeake; the Amazon has been slashed and burned for soy
and don't even mention seafood. To this bunch of herpetologists, the sin of ordering shrimp lay in the bycatch
young fish, and especially sea turtles, caught in the nets and discarded, dead or dying. — Joe Roman

That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this encounter would resound like the sound of footsteps. — Sorata Akizuki

Now, I have to tell you, this reminds me of a story. Actually, it's an old baseball story. You see, one day, old Lucifer down there from his headquarters called St. Peter in Heaven, said they wanted to challenge him to a baseball game. And St. Peter said, "Sure, let's play. But to be fair, I have to tell you all the great ones are up here. We've got Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Roberto Clemente. We've got all the best players, and our manager is the legendary Connie Mack. You won't have a chance." Well, old Lucifer says, "That doesn't matter, we'll win anyway." And St. Peter says, "How do you expect to do that?" "Well," he says, "simple, we've got all the umpires." Luncheon for Representative Connie Mack Miami, Florida June 29, 1988 — Malcolm Kushner

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder. — Jok Church

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. — Mason Cooley

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon. — Tiger Woods