Sosanya Jones Quotes & Sayings

The Mismeasure of Man treats one particular form of quantified claim about the ranking of human groups: the argument that intelligence can be meaningfully abstracted as a single number capable of ranking all people on a linear scale of intrinsic and unalterable mental worth. Fortunately - and I made my decision on purpose - this limited subject embodies the deepest (and most common) philosophical error, with the most fundamental and far-ranging social impact, for the entire troubling subject of nature and nurture, or the genetic contribution to human social organization. — Stephen Jay Gould

All we have to do is replace Obama ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. — Grover Norquist

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.' — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come ... — Gautama Buddha

We need to look for water. Water, water, water, water. — Cody Lundin

Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright. — Phil Plait

Nick will come home, sweaty and salty and beer-loose from a day at the ballpark, and I'll curl up in his lap, ask him about the game, ask him if his friend Jack had a good time, and he'll say, "Oh, he came down with a case of the dancing monkeys - poor Jennifer was having a 'real stressful week' and really needed him at home. — Gillian Flynn

Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator. — Daniel Walker Howe

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. — Seamus Heaney

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman

To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats. — Eric Van Lustbader

Think intelligently.
Think brilliantly.
Think sagaciously.
Think transcendentally. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A good dad will fulfill his daughter's request - but only if it's the right gift, at the right time. Sometimes he may give the gracious gift of saying no. But always - always - he cares about his child's request. — Stephanie Rische

She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her. — Sonali Dev

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. — Roberto Cavalli