Maats Quotes

#1. Do not indulge your weaknesses!

Toba Beta

#2. At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes and intelligence is pretty clear. However, scientists have not found a gene for A-level math ability or a gene for having a "natural ear for languages.

Hunter Maats

#3. One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

Mickey Kaus

#4. Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea.
The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be
free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite
from life?

Thomas Mann

#6. He gave the girl a blond-haired Barbie doll from lost and found ... The doll, dressed in ballroom gown and tiara, appeared surprisingly chipper given her emaciated waistline.

Anthony Marra

#7. My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

Alan Moore

#8. The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Winston Churchill

#9. Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Al Kaline

#10. I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

Charlie Hunnam

#11. How about a kiss, hey?" Etta liked that she was still able to startle him, just a little. The blank look of concentration broke as he barked out a laugh. "I don't know if that's a wise idea. We'd never leave.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Negative thoughts are tenants that charge the landlord rent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Norman Spinrad

#14. Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Robert W. Service

#15. I don't like to think about stuff that's boring.

Eric Bachmann

#16. People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Vivian Vande Velde