Concocting Quotes

#1. The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

Sam Kean

#2. They were not battling a trained warrior - this was a politician. Pity stirred, then recoiled from her rising wrath. This was the sort of beast that killed with calculations, concocting war and disease and wiping out millions from the safety of a council meeting. She

Hugh Howey

#3. I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Jim Crace

#4. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just

Sappho

#5. Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog." "And you," returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, "are such a sensitive and poetical spirit -

Charles Dickens

#6. Concocting a statement that you have trouble believing in the first place (such as "A herring is a mammal"), and then negating it, requires two bouts of cognitive heavy lifting rather than one.

Steven Pinker

#7. So. Are we concocting some elaborate scheme where we pretend to be twins to get your parents back together?

Melissa Keil

#8. It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

James Lileks

#9. Four months ago you refused to believe a place like Croak even existed, and now look at you. All jazzed up and concocting crackpot theories that probably involve a hidden flock of unicorns."
"Or dinosaurs," Lex said with a grin. "Let's not prematurely dismiss a Jurassic Park scenario.

Gina Damico

#10. Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

Sheila Ostrander

#11. The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Russell Smith

#12. I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

Jack Kerouac

#13. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Robert Southey

#14. I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret ...

Nas

#15. Things should have been
so different
to the way they are
now.

Emma Cameron

#16. I look up. Raffe and the others are frozen in the middle of their fight. Everyone is staring at us. A human girl. Killing a warrior angel. In a sword fight. Impossible.

Susan Ee

#17. Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

D. Elton Trueblood