Mate Choice Quotes

#1. Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

Ian McEwan

#2. Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. design is a term that bridges theory and practice. It encompasses both a principled approach and a set of contextualized practices that are constantly adapting to circumstances.

Helen Beetham

#4. Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#5. The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Jacob Bronowski

#6. The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

Peter R. Grant

#7. Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

Neil LaBute

#8. John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#9. If that is scary I really don't understand you, the idea is the lesson.

Deyth Banger

#10. The University of Alabama is not on his radar, but they're on mine.

Heidi McLaughlin

#11. You're here.
Of course I am, where else would I be?
I thought ... well, I wasn't sure if this was our dream or just mine.
It's ours, Livvie, it's ours. Always ours.

Felicia Tatum

#12. We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

Judith Viorst

#13. In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. One is a choice, and one is not.

Tarryn Fisher

#15. The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

Anthony Trollope

#16. Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

Patricia Ireland

#18. Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

Helen Fisher

#19. My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Adam Lambert

#20. Choosing a Life Partner

The person you choose to partner with for life is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Your choice of life mate will impact every aspect of your being.

Susan Blackburn

#21. The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

Max Anders

#22. I glanced at my mate- the male who had always presented me with a choice not as a gift, but as my own gods-given right.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing - and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

Patricia Briggs

#24. If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#25. Science ... has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Luther Burbank