Raymie Lightner Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means. — Ken Follett

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose. — Abraham Kuyper

But there is all these time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. — John Green

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. — Oscar Isaac

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law. — Joseph Story

Signal learning (or classical or Pavlovian conditioning) is the simplest example [of leaning without consciousness]. If a light signal immediately followed by a puff of air through a rubber tube is directed at a person's eye about ten times, the eyelid, which previously blinked only to the puff of air, will begin to blink to the light signal alone, and this becomes more and more frequent as trials proceed. Subjects who have undergone this well-known procedure of signal learning report that it has no conscious component whatever. Indeed, consciousness, in this example the intrusion of voluntary eye blinks to try to assist the signal learning, blocks it from occurring. — Julian Jaynes

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed.

~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~ — Lora Leigh

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be? — Julie Murphy

War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war. — Mike Hoffman

The complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth. — Leo Strauss