Diptera Quotes

#1. Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

Michael Dickinson

#2. He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.

Colleen Hoover

#4. The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Terence McKenna

#5. When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

Tim Berners-Lee

#6. I used to be afraid of going to hell. But now that I'm here, hell doesn't seem so bad.

Amy Harmon

#7. Some cities bustle, some meander, I have read; London blazes and it incinerates. London is the wolf's maw. From the instant I arrived there, I loved every smoldering inch of it

Lyndsay Faye

#8. If tomorrow wasn't promised, what would you give for today?

Ray Lewis

#9. You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.

W.J. King

#10. God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

Beth Moore

#11. English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.

Ben Miles

#12. I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. if you worry about yesterdays moments, you are loosing your moments to live today!!

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