Morreall John Quotes & Sayings

Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense of a rational attitude toward the world. Part of this attitude is viewing things critically, and people with a well developed sense of humor naturally look at things critically, because they are looking for incongruity. — John Morreall

You will have to learn many tedious things, ... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. — Michael Jackson

In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle". A sentence that later flabbergasted the inhabitants of el Idilio, who took it to be a wird tongue twister or a mysterious incantation". — Luis Sepulveda

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? — Kate Atkinson

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach. — John Morreall

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures. — Annie Besant

I don't care that you can't quote my favorite movie, and you don't care that I don't know what book Will and Layken are from. — Jay McLean

It takes but a moment to fall in love; it takes a lifetime to forget it. — Debasish Mridha

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day. — Kiki Smith

Look into the mouth of a person and you will find lies, wiggling there like maggots waiting to grow wings. — Max

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea — Robin Hobb

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books. — Lailah Gifty Akita