Flexure Quotes

#1. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.

Samuel Johnson

#2. The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

William Shakespeare

#3. Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

Seneca The Younger

#4. To taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

Jerome Groopman

#5. Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Bliss Carman

#6. He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

George Herbert

#7. We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

Wayne Coyne

#8. I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

#9. If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

Frederick Lenz

#10. no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect and eschewed the material world and the ignobility of the flesh, if your heart just gave out . . . That

Iain M. Banks

#11. I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

Mary Frann

#12. If our dreams are a reflection of our thoughts, then surely, our life is the foundation of our soul.

Robert Gibson

#13. Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

Lev Grossman