Rhynie Mineralization Quotes & Sayings

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region. — Robert M. Gates

In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient. — Jaree Francis

Adventures are funny things.
Some streak down upon you like a storm.
Others emerge after many years have passed and something forgotten is revealed.
They can be discovered on a dusty bookshelf or the yellowed pages of an ancient map.
They promise great reward, but no adventure is without risk. — Wayne Thomas Batson

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it. — Albert Bandura

I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages — Mercy Johnson

He was at once saving himself, in some way, and mercilessly destroying himself. — W.G. Sebald

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds. — Steven Franssen

The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time. — Drew Carey

But now, everything I once thought I liked about myself has been turned into a symptom of something wrong with me. I'm told over and over by addiction experts not to trust anything I say, think, or feel. They tell me I need to build self-esteem from within. Yet in order to do that, I have to accept that I'm broken, shattered, stigmatized, diseased, and traumatized - and all that does is make me want to throw myself off a rooftop so I can start all over again. — Neil Strauss

Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political." (112)
They are NOT advocating for this sort of prescriptive approach to language; rather, they are describing the social system around language--how language is a political tool. Why persist in quoting them as though they are promoting some sort of linguistic purity? — Gilles Deleuze

Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world. — Seneca.