Myelination Quotes & Sayings

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. — David Chipperfield

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron. — Samuel

In your body, the gradually accumulating burden of reactive experiences is called allostatic load, which increases inflammation, weakens your immune system, and wears on your cardiovascular system. In your brain, allostatic load causes neurons to atrophy in the prefrontal cortex, the center of top-down executive control; in the hippocampus, the center of learning and memory; and in other regions. It impairs myelination, the insulating of neural fibers to speed along their signals, which can weaken the connectivity between different regions of your brain, so they don't work together as well as they should. — Rick Hanson

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. — Florence King

Poetry is that which is lost in translation. — Laurence J. Peter

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. — Frank B. Kellogg

[...] the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task. — Isaac Deutscher

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know. — Cass McCombs

Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be. — David Mitchell

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. — Charles Spurgeon

The water shut off, and a second later Daemon came out with the sweats hanging low on his hips, and his skin was dewy, glistening. My eyes were fixated on his stomach and the drops of water running over the dips, disappearing under the band of the sweats. I was still only in a towel.
And I was holding a box of condoms in my hand.
My face was red as a ladybug.
One dark eyebrow went up.
My gaze fell to the box and then went back to him. "Confident, aren't you?"
"I'd like to call it being prepared for any occasion." "Although, I am disappointed they don't have little alien faces on them like everything else."
I choked on my next breath. "What kind of motel sells condoms?"
"My favorite kind of motel?" ... "You've spent this entire time looking at this instead of eating something, haven't you? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. — Osamu Dazai

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue. — Raoul Dufy