Sorokousty Quotes & Sayings

The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence. — Dylan Evans

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge. — Karen Traviss

What's a fracking Cylon? — Kevin Hearne

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do! — Brian O'Driscoll

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people. — Donalyn Miller

Be silent, and let your intelligence speak for you.
Be silent, and let your excellence speak for you.
Be silent, and let your brilliance speak for you.
Be silent, and let your nobleness speak for you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. ( ... ) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full. — Nick Tosches

People do not really change; we are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. — Kim Echlin

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it. — E.F. Schumacher

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great. — John Chrysostom

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight. — Stieg Larsson

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me. — Ruta Sepetys