Theotokos Site Quotes & Sayings

Wallace would have none of it. In reviewing The Descent of Man he wrote, 'Are we to believe that the actions of an ever varying fancy for a slight change of colour could produce and fix the definite colours and markings which actually characterise species?' Furthermore, he said, it was unacceptable to suggest that birds had an aesthetic sense. That would be crediting a bird with a human characteristic for which there was no evidence. It would be anthropomorphism at its most unjustified. — David Attenborough

If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions. — Max Horkheimer

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out. — Quentin Tarantino

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. — Mercedes Ruehl

Our knowledge is limited but power of imagination is unlimited. — Debasish Mridha

I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works. — W. Somerset Maugham

Yes, thank God. With a little subterfuge I managed to smuggle him back under my roof where he belongs. He is resting comfortably right now, and I am on cloud ten because cloud nine was full of pompous Englishmen. Wasn't my scene. — Tiffany Reisz

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic. — Virginia Postrel

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought. — Johanna Spyri

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that. — Drew Goddard

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it. — Clint Eastwood

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky ... — George Herbert

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so. — Adam Gopnik