Etiology Quotes

#1. In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

Donald Kagan

#2. Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Catherine Marshall

#3. But the ground rumbled with a growing, urgent thunder.

Steven Erikson

#4. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

#5. I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. What makes a man move,
From comforts left behind,
Then put motion to
Adventures of the mind.

Dean Cumings

#7. Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.

Alexandra Bracken

#8. Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?

Laura Mullen

#10. Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

Doris Lessing

#11. If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.

Heidi Julavits

#12. Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George Will

#13. I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

Kym Whitley

#14. The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

Tom Robbins

#15. Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears,
Fever'd the progress of these years,
Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem
The recollection of a dream.

Walter Scott