Ronci Spin Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do. — Anne Bishop

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life. — Joel Osteen

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened. — Fredrik Backman

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good. — Jerry Goldsmith

He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive.
"We're hungry." That came from behind him.
"They smell tasty," a voice to his left hissed.
"I don't like this," Andrew said, feeling like the world around them was spinning with voices, taunting, echoing them.
"I don't like this," a voice parroted. "I don't like this. I don't like this. I don't like this. — Laura Kreitzer

After all, Paul Robeson said, 'Artists are the radical voice of civilization.' Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way in which our global humanity mistrusts itself. Perhaps we as artists and as visionaries, for what's better in the human heart and the human soul, could influence citizens everywhere in the world to see the better side of who and what we are as a species. — Harry Belafonte

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used. — Robin Marantz Henig

apparently pleasure caused the hob's sweat glands to go into a frenzy. — Anonymous

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. — Nikola Tesla

Deuteronomy's notion of tithes - that for two out of three years surplus is shared broadly with the disadvantaged, and in the third year is given to them outright - is sound economics when seen in light of conceptions of redistributive economics in primitive societies. In modern capitalist societies, surplus earnings are placed into savings, and insurance policies are taken out to hedge against various forms of adversity. The laws of tithing may be construed as another element in a program of primitive insurance. In a premodern society, A will give some of his surplus in a good year to B, who may have fallen on hard times in exchange for B's commitment to reciprocate should their roles one day be reversed. — Joshua A. Berman

Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining. — Robert A. Giacalone