Homologous Structures Quotes & Sayings

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather ... positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results. — Albert Bandura

Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from your experiences. Your childhood games; your family's interests and values; how people in your community express love and hate; what relatives and friends regard as courteous or perilous; how those around you worship; what they sing; when they laugh; how they make a living and relax: innumerable cultural forces build your unique set of character traits. The balance of your personality is your temperament, all the biologically based tendencies that contribute to your consistent patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. As Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset, put it, 'I am, plus my circumstances.' Temperament is the 'I am,' the foundation of who you are. — Helen Fisher

Harb was a ticking time bomb. It was like watching a preacher with Tourette syndrome. You knew the "Shit! Balls!" was coming at some point during the sermon, probably while he was slapping you on the forehead during a faith healing. — John Corwin

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing ... let the song do the work. — Shelby Lynne

I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do ... it's weird, non? — Emmanuelle Beart

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead ... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Libbie Hyman

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again. — Janice Tanton

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all. — Feist

Crises in themselves are highly educational. — Henry Arthur Jones

The mass media dwells on and perpetuates an ethic of domination and violence because our image makers have more intimate knowledge of these realities than they have with the realities of love. — Bell Hooks