"How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story."

-- Jean Plaidy

#Stupid Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I hate not giving the people what they want.”
“To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”
“I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you the peace that you felt as a child will come to you often and it will linger with you. The promise is true that He made to His disciples: â€œPeace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:... not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”
“The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (1890). “In Darkest Africa”
“I am willing to taste any drink once.”
“Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.”
“I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them. Wouldn't the constant temptation be so distracting, so dangerous? But now, I could see how, if you were focusing on something else hard enough, the temptation was be nothing at all.”
“Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.”

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