"A woman’s body doesn’t quit just because her heart breaks."

-- Margaret Maron

#Heart Quotes #Body Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.”
“The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.350, Picador Australia
“What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.”
“Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.”
“Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.”
“If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.”
“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”

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