Itony Quotes & Sayings

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today. — Elizabeth Blackburn

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. — Steven Pressfield

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

Friends have been true mirrors to me, showing me myself, reflecting back to me an ugly spot in my soul, and reminding me of something good I had thought or done when I couldn't remember. — Rosalie De Rosset

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you."

~Alice Walker, in an interview about her work in Common Boundary, 1990 — Alice Walker

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world — Scott Westerfeld

Boston has two seasons: August and winter. — Billy Herman

Old folks are the nation. — Toni Cade Bambara

Carry on. Just be careful with whom you carry on. — Dick Peterson

I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics. — John Catsimatidis

In your own world you have attained great wisdom concerning bodies and by this you have been able to make a ship that can cross the heaven; but in all other things you have the mind of an animal. When first you came here, I sent for you, meaning you nothing but honour. The darkness in your mind filled you with fear. — C.S. Lewis

To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective - a virtuous society - America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues. — Patrick Mendis

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey