Intervening Variable Quotes & Sayings

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final. — Abby Wambach

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. — Cressida Cowell

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow. — Faith Baldwin

Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him. — J.D. Greear

The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls,
Blessing all lands with its charity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. — Alan W. Watts

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F Scott Fitzgerald

At that point [Father Sogol] gave me a roguish and forceful look demanding my complicity in this adroit falsehood. For naturally everyone was still in the dark. But by this simple ruse each person had the impression of belonging to a minority, of being among "one or two not yet informed," felt himself surrounded by a convinced majority, and was eager to be quickly convinced himself. This simple method of Sogol's for "getting the audience into the palm of his hand," as he phrased it, was a simple application of the mathematical method that consists in "considering the problem as solved." And he also used the chemical analogy of a "chain reaction." But if this use was employed in the service of truth, could one still call it falsehood? In any case everyone pricked up his ears. — Rene Daumal

Without exception, spirituality - the belief in connection, a power greater than self, and interconnections grounded in love and compassion - emerged as a component of resilience. Most people spoke of God, but not everyone. Some were occasional churchgoers; others were not. Some worshipped at fishing holes; others in temples, mosques, or at home. Some struggled with the idea of religion; others were devout members of organized religions. The one thing that they all had in common was spirituality as the foundation of their resilience. — Brene Brown