Oflife Quotes & Sayings

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework — Carl Woese

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh meets America's president. It's like President "Who?" meeting President "Huh?". — Jay Leno

There is plenty of other evidence, however, that the nominal conversion of the Roman Empire to the Christian religion had effected no visible improvement in the common morals. The world was worse rather than better. Out of its besetting temptations men fled to save their souls. They fled from the world, which in the first century was believed by the Christians to be doomed, and liable to be destroyed by divine fire before the end of the year, and which in the fourth century was believed by the Christians to be damned: it belonged to the devil. They fled also from the church, which they accused of secularity and of hypocrisy. Many of the monks were laymen, who in deep disgust had forsaken the services and sacraments. They said their own prayers and sought God in their own way, asking no aid from priests. They were men who had resolved never to go to church again. — George Hodges

Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing. — Charlaine Harris

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do. — Michael Zaslow

He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog. — George Orwell

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen