Settlemires Quotes & Sayings

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. — E. O. Wilson

If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute.

If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in ever slight measure to the other side the other signature the other hearing the other speech the other grasp. — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel. — Charles M. Schulz

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher. — Henry Van Dyke

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them. — Rene Descartes

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. — Gordon Brown

I am a villain, but I'm not your villain. — Ashur

This is what we've got at the moment, who we are. It's not nearly what we once had- the good, I mean- but it's also not what we once had, meaning the bad. — Therese Anne Fowler

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought. — Gabrielle Zevin