Roseannadannas Quotes & Sayings

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. — David Abram

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area. — David J. C. MacKay

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect. — Gordie Gillespie

I had worked and waited for this day. In solving this mystery I had also proved something, at least to myself, and I finally knew what real research would feel like. But as satisfying as it was, it still stands out as one of the loneliest moments of my life. On some deep level, the realization that I could do good science was accompanied by the knowledge that I had formally and terminally missed my chance to become like any of the women that I had ever known. In — Hope Jahren

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within your means. — Heber J. Grant

This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies. We have seen this movement already with the exaltation Christology that was the original form of Christian belief. By the second century it was widely deemed heretical. Later understandings of the second century were acceptable and dominant in their day, but they too came to be suspect and even spurned. — Bart D. Ehrman

For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas. — Vanessa Farnsworth

If God gave each person his own life, then He will give each person his own special resurrection. If God performed one miracle and gave me this rushed, elusive life, then he will think up a way to give me another that lasts. And there will be this Easter night there, too. And today's evening after the rain. — Mikhail Shishkin

What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. — Julian Fellowes

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth