Lorius Lory Quotes & Sayings

The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it. — David Souter

She herself did not seem quite real. She was pale and almost transparent, the victim I used for my own enjoyment in dreams. — Anna Kavan

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through. — Jeff Sessions

Eros had consumed a lot of her Nectar, she recalled with great satisfaction. And if Vicky was right, he would be coming back for more, just as Uranus & the others did. And Vicky had told her that as long as she remained a virgin, her Nectar would remain desirable to men, & her womb could go on producing Nectar indefinitely.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. — Edward Gibbon

If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed. — Philip Kitcher

Thinking is the number one enemy of dreaming — Liz Gallagher

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer? — Dean Koontz

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us. — John Nelson Darby

The scientific method entails two assumptions that are so basic that, even if you spell them out, they are still difficult to keep in mind. First: that the observer stays the same while the world changes. Second: that cause precedes effect.

But the very nature of the experiment we are conducting means that the second of these assumptions is thrown into doubt. We are deliberately attempting to engineer an event in which effect chronologically precedes cause.

If one of these assumptions is under threat, why not the other? — Dexter Palmer

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear ... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress. — Rand Paul

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not. — Dennis Rainey