Simians Primates Quotes & Sayings

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue. — Henry Fielding

Decisive results come sooner from sudden shocks than from long- drawn pressure. Shocks throw the opponent off his balance. Pressure allows him time to adjust himself to it. That military lesson is closely linked with the general experience of history that human beings have an almost infinite power of accommo-' dation, to degradation of living conditions, so long as the process is gradual. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson

Love is the best wisdom.
Kindness is the best philosophy. — Debasish Mridha

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse. — Eoin Colfer

It is not enough to know that you are called, it is also necessary to know how you will accomplish your calling — Sunday Adelaja

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects. — Big Pun

Whereas it was so hard for people to break, but we could get sick or die in what seemed like a matter of seconds. — Jillian Cantor

I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me. — D. Allen Miller

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself — Haruki Murakami

Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular. — Susan Davis

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps? — H.R. Giger

As we left the kitchen, I asked, "Can I hold your sword today?"
Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a brow.
"The sword," I corrected. "The sword."
We'll see. — Chloe Neill

She felt like she'd looked through a window and knew what happiness looked like. It was pure and unadulterated and just on the other side of a distant ridge through a murky window. And still she was closer to happiness than she'd ever been. — Sarah Noffke

We are partners in our own deception. The lies we tell ourselves. The life we have settled for, when we yearn for the life we wish for. We become our own worst enemy as we yearn for the things we don't have and discredit the gifts we have. — Tony Curl