Louis Stettner Quotes & Sayings

Vaccinations are the application of evolutionary principles in action. If we can control the contact made between pathogen and lymphocyte populations, we can go a long way toward eliminating disease.108 It doesn't require total annihilation but rather a control on population dynamics. Vaccines are the way we use selective cloning to keep a pathogenic population in a state of benign coexistence. The process is based on evolution, as pointed out by Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa: Genes can mutate and recombine. These dynamic characteristics of genetic material are essential elements of evolution. Do they also play an important role during the development of a single multicellular organism? Our results strongly suggest that this is the case for the immune system. — Greg Graffin

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna.
"Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them. — Catherynne M Valente

The dark forest looked on fire. The trees were lit up like funeral pyres. She thought she saw bodies strapped to the trees, burning, burning, burning. — Jeanette Winterson

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on. — Elizabeth Brundage

I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness's daughter, and I have the Lioness's strength. — Sabaa Tahir

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in. — Nancy Sinatra

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau

I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain but no one heard his grief. — George R R Martin

Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded. — Carl Sagan

What we think often does more to influence the nature of our relationships than what we say or do. — Henry Grayson

No need to worry about loving one when all of them would be back tomorrow night. — Genevieve Valentine

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face. — Bo Burnham

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people. — Tom Hollander

Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice. — Thomas A Kempis