Salpetriere Hopital Quotes & Sayings

It is hardly fresh intellectual ground that beauty matters, and that it matters more for women. For example, a foundational paper of social psychology is called "What Is Beautiful Is Good." It was the first in a now long line of research to establish that good-looking people are seen as more intelligent, more competent, and more trustworthy than the rest of us. More attractive people get better jobs. They are also acquitted more often in court, and, failing that, they get lighter sentences. — Christian Rudder

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. — Robert Herrick

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God made the world - that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colours and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again. — C.S. Lewis

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up. — Matt Ridley

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces. — Andrew Davies

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. — John Philip Sousa

but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better. — Randy Pausch

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. — Bill Bryson

Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher
than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car. — P. J. O'Rourke

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do. — Jessica Pare

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,
not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

we sometimes carry the sacred fire in our hearts, but have no idea where that flame came from. — Paulo Coelho