Timmis Quotes & Sayings

We obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us - a — John Cheever

Timmis and colleagues found that chloroplast genes are transferred to the nucleus at a rate of about 1 transfer in every 16 000 seeds in the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. This may not sound impressive, but a single tobacco plant produces as many as a million seeds in a single year, which adds up to more than 60 seeds in which at least one chloroplast gene has been transferred to the nucleus - in every plant, in every generation. — Nick Lane

We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love. — Mike Timmis

When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it. — Roger Delano Hinkins

We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back. — Catherine McAuley

Mexico City is a perpetual picnic. Literally. There is a dizzying amount of wonderful food here, and the majority of it is consumed standing on one's feet, on the scarred and broken concrete sidewalk. It is dispensed from whitewashed metal stands, doled out of baskets and buckets, fried on griddles barely balanced over planks, ladled out of huge metal pots. — Nicholas Gilman

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. — Jim Ramstad

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother. — Louis De Montfort

Drawing is putting a line around an idea. — Henri Matisse

He turns around to tend to the pasta like he didn't just ruin me for any other guy for the rest of my life. — Colleen Hoover

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger. — Drew Barrymore

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along. — Micky Dolenz

That is the gospel invitation: come into Christ, escape from judgement and enjoy great blessing. — Steve Timmis