Saurean Quotes & Sayings

I hated him and I loved him. With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter. — Cheryl Strayed

Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.
They're narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, solve problems, and guided social behavior. They structured natural and social information into patterns using symbols, and embedded fact into story form. This increased their impact, making information meaningful and personally involving - not just cold, detached facts. — Alan Joshua

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old
he's a misguided 40-year-old person. — Talib Kweli

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care. — Jeff Merkley

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand. — R.A. Dickey

And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York. — Alison Pill

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know. — Harry Shearer

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. — Tom Brokaw

I think God is like the president of a giant corporation, and Buddha, Muhammad, and Jesus are his sales guys, and they all have different territories. — Steve Peek

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be. — Joel Osteen

It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them. — Jana Deleon

Homo Sapiens evolved to think of people as divided into us and them. 'Us' was the group immediately around you, whoever you were, and 'them' was everyone else. In fact, no social animal is ever guided by the interests of the entire species to which it belongs. No chimpanzee cares about the interests of the chimpanzee species, no snail will lift a tentacle for the global snail community, no lion alpha male makes a bid for becoming the king of all lions, and at the entrance of no beehive can one find the slogan: 'Worker bees of the world - unite! — Yuval Noah Harari

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of. — Libba Bray