Lenski Sociology Quotes & Sayings

There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged as others were. But one thing could have melted or caused the unconquerable spirit to bend, and this was the overwhelming passion of love
not a slight, tender feeling, but a great and powerful one, such as could be awakened but by a being of as strong and deep a nature as itself, one who was in all things its peer. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I thought you said you were okay with turning forty. — Michael Thomas Ford

Mind you," said Ponder, "the universe does have a rhythm. Day and night, light and dark, life and death - " "Chicken soup and croutons," said Ridcully. "Well, not evert metaphor bears close examination". — Terry Pratchett

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline. — Warren Buffett

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love. — Hudson Taylor

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision. — Robert Jordan

For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence. — Samuel Richardson

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. — David Ruffin

Eggs crack. Butter pops in a hot pan. Soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese. An omelette arrives. The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold. Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later she is eating wedges of wet sunlight. — Doerr Anthony

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors. — George Carlin

One day we had one of those freak storms when the sky turned blue-black and the lightning fretted a silver filigree across it. And then had come the rain - great, fat, heavy drops, as warm as blood. When the storm had passed, the sky had been washed to the clear blue of a hedge-sparrow's egg and the damp earth sent out wonderfully rich, almost gastronomic smells as of fruit-cake or plum pudding; and the olive trunks steamed as the rain was dried off them by the sun, each trunk looking as though it were on fire. — Gerald Durrell

His heart slowed, winding down like a music box, a season at its end.
The last air left Holland's lungs.
And then, at last, the world breathed in. — V.E Schwab

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO. — Dave Chappelle

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. — Marquis De Sade