Jul Quotes

#1. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}

Herbert Spencer

#2. Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

Ernest Becker

#3. The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Homer

#4. To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

Stephen Spender

#5. People leave - that's what I was used to - but Isaac showed up.

Tarryn Fisher

#6. People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Temple Grandin

#7. ...I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!

Carrie Fisher

#8. I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.

Eric Stoltz

#9. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Rick Warren

#10. I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

Johnny Vegas

#11. Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Gottfried Leibniz

#12. The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Mike Leigh

#13. your boss is an older sibling. You'll always be respectful, but you won't hesitate to offer frank advice when you think it's warranted - and you'll never suck up.

Gary Hamel

#14. Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

Rick Warren