"You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much."

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Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Animal Quotes #Survival Quotes #Development Quotes

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
“I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.”
“A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.”
“You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.16, Ballantine Books
“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”
“I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I run because I enjoy it â€” not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run â€” not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.”
“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”

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