Prasopes Quotes & Sayings

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin

In essence, individuals more concerned with portraying their own uniqueness were more likely to select an alcoholic beverage not yet ordered at their table in an effort to demonstrate that they were in fact one of a kind. What these results show is that people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others. When people order food and drinks, they seem to have two goals: to order what they will enjoy most and to portray themselves in a positive light in the eyes of their friends. — Dan Ariely

The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ... — Hugo Black

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. — Moliere

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance. — Francis S. Collins

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. — Scott Raab