Determinates Quotes

#1. A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Lesley Visser

#3. Cancer is a tremendous opportunity to have your face pressed right up against the glass of your mortality. But what patients see through the glass is not a world outside cancer, but a world taken over by it - cancer reflected endlessly around them like a hall of mirrors.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#4. The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Eoin Colfer

#5. Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#7. I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

Jonathan Tropper