Societatea Quotes & Sayings

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving. — Alexandra Katehakis

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. — Parminder Nagra

The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step. But of all the mutations studied since genetics became a science, not a single one has been found that adds a little information. It is not impossible, in principle, for a mutation to add a little information, but it is improbable.
The NDT was an attractive theory. Unfortunately, it is based on the false speculation that many small random mutations could build up to large evolutionary changes. — Lee Spetner

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him. — Francine Rivers

Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head. — Karen Russell

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel, — Emma Watson

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves - a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever. — Emily Giffin

Grief weighs nothing but you still have to drag it around. — Emily Rapp

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. — Wole Soyinka

Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful. — Fulton J. Sheen

Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser if he annoyed me. Used ter make him laugh ... — J.K. Rowling

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. — David Duchovny