Odrobina Quotes & Sayings

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. — Philip Neri

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return. — Robert Solow

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained. — Helen Keller

Croquet is bastardized roque. — Stephen King

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them. — Rob Lowe

The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species. — Baruj Benacerraf

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. — Marcus Aurelius

Every fundamentalism focuses on end times, and Armageddon is, in a sense, a rhetorical trope, an emphatic and overwhelming conclusion, meant to wrap up and make tidy the mistaken wanderings of history. For a fundamentalist the end is one of the forms desire takes, a passion no different from lust or avarice, intense with longing and the need for fulfillment and relief. It's like they're horny for apocalypse. They get off on denouements, which partly explains why Hell House never amounted to much more than a series of murderous conclusions. It focused only on that part of a story where life finds itself fated. Inside every act a judgement was coiled. Real people with their ragged and uncertain lives, their stumbling desires, their bleak or blessed futures, would only break into the narrative, complicating the story, dragging it on endlessly. — Charles D'Ambrosio