Odors Elba Quotes & Sayings

Resurrection plants are usually tiny, no bigger than your fist. They are ugly and small and useless and special. When it rains, their leaves puff up but do not become green for forty-eight hours because it takes time for photosynthesis to start up. During those strange days of its reawakening the plant lives off of pure concentrated sugar, an intense sustained infusion of sweetness, a year's worth of sucrose coursing through its veins in just one day. This little plant has done the impossible: it has transcended the wilted brown of death. The miracle is not sustainable, of course, and within a day or two things will inevitably go back to normal. Such a crazy life takes its toll, and in the long term, even a resurrection plant withers and dies completely. But for a brief, glorious moment it knows something that no other plant has ever known: how to grow without being green. — Hope Jahren

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. — Jens Stoltenberg

I know he would die if you died, Luce — Lauren Kate

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. — Muhammad Iqbal

Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity. — Margaret Thatcher

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group. — Paul Feyerabend

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think — Niels Bohr

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal

T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren — Kathryn Lasky

They had turned fifteen last December and had already started to save for their own car. They estimated it would take them at least two years - if they bought no CDs, DVDs, games, clothes or shoes, which were Sophie's big weakness. — Michael Scott

Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation. — Elizabeth Thornton

Well ... you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way
especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place. — Bob Dylan

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happiness derives from nature, and all pleasure from the satisfaction of a desire. On the contrary, games, the sphere of play, reveal a passion for rules, a giddiness born of rules, and a force that comes from ceremony, and not desire. — Jean Baudrillard