Patronymics Quotes & Sayings

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro-education.. — Julian Castro

I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?'

Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning possible conversation stoppers, but I didn't think that I would ever have the nerve to use one. But now, in the most awkward of situations, it seemed appropriate.

'Actually, I'm writing a biography,' I responded casually. 'About a man in Alaska who makes foie gras from penguins. — Phoebe Damrosch

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children. — Magnus Scheving

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while. — Jim Butcher

She came to find it meaningless, because it was as if that was the reason why people didn't bother to figure her out. She was attractive in that inaccessible way, and people seemed fine with it. "No, — Mina V. Esguerra

published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced — Stacy Schiff

Writers and actors have some creative ground in common, and so when you're writing a scene and hoping to convey a mood it's not the worst idea to try to put that mood into your headspace -- feel it, if only a little. I'm not saying you have to kill a kitten or punch your mother to feel something -- I just mean, stir up the memory of certain emotions if not the emotion itself. Same way an actor might think about a sad moment to conjure tears on-camera. 23. — Chuck Wendig

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate? — Florence King

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous ystem in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction. — Alfred Korzybski

We know from Philo there was already a Jewish tradition of a preexistent being named Jesus who was the Form of God (Element 40). It cannot be claimed Philo came up with this notion on his own, since that would entail a wildly improbable coincidence. So we surely are looking at a derivation from an earlier Divine Logos doctrine. Then we're told this Jesus did not try to seize power from God in heaven (as by some accounts Satan had once done, resulting in his fall to the lower realms), but instead divested himself of all his power and higher being, enslaving himself (either to God's plan or the world of flesh) by 'being made' [genomenos] in the 'likeness' of men (not literally becoming a man, but assuming a human body, and thus wearing human 'flesh'). — Richard C. Carrier

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. — Ed Gillespie

I'd like that, too, in the future. I won't resist, if you take me away, said Faria. — Michael Diack

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet. — Marcus Tullius Cicero