Nesse Quotes

#1. Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

E.F. Benson

#2. Examples of this kind teach us that one should not believe any human being, no matter how saintly he may be, but must pay attention to Him who calls and to His Word.

Martin Luther

#3. Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction - just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.

Randolph M. Nesse

#4. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

Randolph M. Nesse

#5. If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

Randolph M. Nesse

#6. If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

Jack Canfield

#7. War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century - Fox. Long

Otto Friedrich

#9. I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#10. You think I'm perfect?"
He didn't look away.Didn't look bashful or even nervous. Just stared at her, like she'd asked him if Luna orbited the Earth.Then he leaned over and brushed a kiss against her forehead.
"Just sort of," he said."You know.On a good day.

Marissa Meyer

#11. The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

Randolph M. Nesse