Laakea Kapoi Quotes & Sayings

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. — Gail Carson Levine

As all the colours blend into one resplendent rainbow, so all the glories of heaven and earth meet in thee, and unite so wondrously, that there is none like thee in all things; nay, if all the virtues of the most excellent were bound in one bundle, they could not rival thee, thou mirror of all perfection. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I did it, Finn. I did it. I was ready to jump, and now she's jumping with me. — Jessica Park

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness. — Myrtle Fillmore

Life is not a Race, but we still continue the Chase and try to be an Ace. It's time to get out of this Maze and Truly Live with Grace. — R.v.m.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens

I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover. — Nell Zink

Among the things most characteristic of organisms--most distinctive of living as opposed to inorganic systems--is a sort of directedness. Their structures and activities have an adaptedness, an evident and vital usefulness to the organism. Darwin's answer and ours is to accept the common sense view...[that] the end ("telos") [is] that the individual and the species may survive. But this end is (usually) unconscious and impersonal. Naive teleology is controverted not by ignoring the obvious existence of such ends but by providing a naturalistic, materialistic explanation of the adaptive characteristics serving them. [Book review in "Science," 1959, p. 673.] — George Gaylord Simpson

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time. — Robert Marion

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music. — Win Butler

They were two ships sailing in opposite diretions, having met for a short time in the middle of the voyage, and he could no sooner "keep her" than capture the wind. — Alexandra Bracken