Ontogeny Repeats Quotes

#1. Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#2. This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.

Bill Maher

#3. God is the source of all knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!

Preeth Nambiar

#5. Phoenix?"
"What?" I hate that my voice hitched.
"Can I open the door?"
I blinked in surprise. "Why do you want to do that?"
"Because I want to hold you.

Kate Evangelista

#6. The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#7. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

George W. Bush

#8. That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third party that has arisen between them. Love becomes an entity unto itself; the thing that determines how life is to be lived.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#9. I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Dido Armstrong

#10. We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#11. Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.

Bruce Lee

#12. You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.

Madison Thorne Grey

#13. It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. My

Anonymous

#14. The purpose of Buddhism is not to convert people. It is to give them tools so they can create greater happiness. So they can be happier Catholics, happier atheists, happier Buddhists.

David Michie

#15. Heroes only enjoy the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

George Gaylord Simpson

#17. The photographic image ... is a message without a code.

Roland Barthes