Refecting Quotes & Sayings

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns. — Annalee Newitz

Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds. — Kevin Systrom

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. — Brittany Daniel

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804

There is always a time to make right what is wrong. — Susan Griffin

You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help! — Rick Riordan

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers — W. Somerset Maugham

My biggest asset is my combination of size and speed. — Chad Ochocinco

Lincoln was raised in the thick of Old School Calvinism. In Kentucky and Indiana, his parents belonged to a fire-breathing sect called Separate Baptism, in which congregants heard - in the tradition of Jonathan Edward's famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - that they were bound for eternal hellfire, and nothing they could do or say or think would change their fate. Preachers did allow that a chosen few were ordained for grace and would be saved, but these fortunate ones had been selected by God before time began. As one Baptist preacher in Lincoln's Kentucky explained it, "Long before the morning stars sang together . . . the Almighty looked down upon the ages yet unborn, as it were, in review before him, and selected one here and another there to enjoy eternal life and left the rest to the blackness of darkness forever." Such Baptist ministers were so intense that it has been said that they "out-Calvined Calvin. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind. — Michael Crichton

For one thing, a first edition certainly is the edition nearest the heart of an author, the edition upon which his hopes were laid and his ambitions builded; and particularly is this true when the book in question happens to be an author's first publication. Imagine with what flatterings of the authorical heart, with what ecstatic apprehension, he handled his own copy of the book that day it came to him from the publisher! Is not something of this spirit communicated to the collector who loves his writer and his work? Or does that explanation partake too much of sorcery? Here is the original creation, just as it came first from the presses, with all ist strangenesses and wonder for ist orignal readers, with all ist uncorrected errors and inaccuracies to mark it as the curiosity it is. And, of course, with all those mystic values that accrue and attach to the thing that is rare and hard to find. That is all very sentimental, but it is also very practical, as will appear in due course. — Vincent Starrett

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness. — Smith Wigglesworth

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit. — H.E. Davey

You can't navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long term behavior and structure; unless you are aware of false boundaries and bounded rationality; unless you take into account limiting factors, nonlinearities and delays. — Donella H. Meadows