Things They Carried Norman Bowker Quotes & Sayings

Momma always said the common misconception in relationships was that people got so caught up in finding someone who understood them when, in reality, all they needed was someone who wanted to understand them. With the right person, that would be more than enough. — Anne Jolin

This second type of vent is not volcanic, and there's no magma involved. Instead, it depends on the reaction of these freshly exposed rocks with seawater. Water doesn't just percolate into such rocks: it physically reacts with them; it is incorporated into them, altering their structure to form hydroxide minerals like serpentine (named after its resemblance to the mottled green scales of a serpent). The reaction with seawater expands the rock, causing it to crack and fracture, which in turn permits further seawater to penetrate, perpetuating the process. The scale of such reactions is astonishing. The volume of water bound into rock in this way is believed to equal the volume of the oceans themselves. As — Nick Lane

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?" — Richard Dormer

The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority. — Robert Michels

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. — Albert Einstein

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval. — Paul Rudd

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. — Samuel Johnson

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Age whitens hairs, but not sin. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places. — Gene Stratton-Porter