Odrenina Quotes & Sayings

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own. — Richelle E. Goodrich

DARWIN'S "SACRED CAUSE"?
Much ink has been dedicated to determining Charles Darwin's role in "scientific racism." The only way to empirically and scientifically determine his role is to organize the events as a timeline, and thus placing them into context of historical events. Political analysis without historical context is all sail and no rudder. In America we are constantly made aware that both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, in the same year, February 12, 1809. Adrian Desmond and James Moore famous 2009 book, "Darwin's Sacred Cause," leverages this factoid in an effort to place Charles Darwin at par with Abraham Lincoln in the abolition of slavery. This fraudulently steals away credit from Abraham Lincoln, who took a bullet to the head for the cause, and transfers it by inference to an aristocrat whom remained in his plush abode throughout the conflict and never lifted a finger for the cause. — A.E. Samaan

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were thinking about, and it informs a rewriting of a scene. — Joe Swanberg

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives. — Jim Coleman

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time. — Bernard Arnault

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler

You ask me why I dwell
amidst these jade-green hills?
I smile. No words can tell
the stillness in my heart.
Peach blossoms drift streamwater
away deep in mystery.
I live in the other world
one that lies beyond the human. — Li Bai

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years. — Martin Luther

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. — Georg Brandes

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. — Madeleine L'Engle

Being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain. — Jeff Lindsay