Semipermeable Objects Quotes & Sayings

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off. — C.S. Lewis

If persons in the untreated ... group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported ... In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria ... of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment, ... the worse the error ... — Hardin B. Jones

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh. — Kelly Wearstler

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work? — Dallas Willard

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. — Timothy Radcliffe

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn. — Robert Stephen Parry

For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while. — Douglas Adams

Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. When you go for it, you don't escape fear, you land in it. Fear is not a dragon to be slain once, it's an ocean to be swum daily. — Jon Acuff

Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created. — Sam Keen

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. — Evan Davis

Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world. — Sergio Busquets

I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended. — Jennifer E. Smith

Illegitimis nil carborundum. — Patricia Briggs

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances. — Haruki Murakami

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear. — Phil Hartman