Pseudobiceros Bedfordi Quotes & Sayings

Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart. — Tom Robbins

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. — Robert Hughes

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere. — Johnny Cash

Trauma is any unwanted violation of one's body, mind, and/or spirit. — Daniel S. Janik

Pseudobiceros bedfordi, which engages in a sperm battle when mating. Each is equipped with two penises, with which they fence, attempting to smear sperm onto the other without being fertilized themselves. The ejaculate burns a hole in the skin of the recipient, which is sometimes cavernous enough to cause the loser to tear in half. The problem is that the flatworms all want to be male. The female, almost by definition, invests more of her resources in the offspring, which means that individuals pass on more of their genes if they succeed in fertilizing others, while avoiding being fertilized themselves. This equates to spraying sperm around liberally without becoming pregnant. — Nick Lane

The rain washes too many secrets away. It isn't good where they collect. — Tessa Gratton

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film — Sean Connery

They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory. — Jodi Picoult

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence ... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part. — Willard Van Orman Quine

A man's beliefs about the effects of the substance will largely be borne out. If he believes that alcohol can make him aggressive, it will, as research has shown. On the other hand, if he doesn't attribute violence-causing powers to substances, he is unlikely to become aggressive even when severely intoxicated. — Lundy Bancroft

I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline. — Donald S. Whitney

it was only and ever love. — Nayyirah Waheed

Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field! — Tennessee Celeste Claflin