Volmer Amphibian Quotes & Sayings

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell. — C.S. Lewis

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. — Tom Watson

Pushing all doubts and fears aside, I let myself feel. Just this once I wanted to take this for myself. If it is all I would ever have of him, then I wanted to make it something to remember. — Jordan Silver

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. — Guy De Maupassant

That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.' — Charles Stross

It meant that we were to march into the hall and take out our school books and reproduce the slipper-shaped animalcule whose pseudopodia power it through a world without feeling; to learn how to inscribe a hexagon into a circle without tearing the paper; to assimilate the causes and consequences of the battle of Panipat without ever identifying your own enemy because that would mean identifying yourself. — Jerry Pinto

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ. — Reid A. Ashbaucher

In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine. — Isaac Marion

Birds fly with their wings, men with their happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan