Overpeptonized Quotes

#1. There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

G. Stanley Hall

#2. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.

Elisabeth Badinter

#3. Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

Criss Jami

#5. Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Fred Brooks

#6. Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Goldwin Smith

#7. All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, team-mate scores. It's called an assist and it's my way of spreading happiness.

Andrea Pirlo

#8. A thousand sweet words can never disguise the rattle of a viper about to strike.

Chanda Hahn

#9. The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.

Mark O'Connell

#10. But if believers are to grow in Christlikeness, they must be continually filled with the Spirit - allowing His power to permeate their lives so that all they think, say, and do reflects His divine presence.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#11. Most problems are caused by solutions.

Eric Sevareid

#12. I am fascinated by the fact that the stories show how a better life comes primarily through self-sacrifice. This is brought out unmistakably in the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

A. Hussa

#13. I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

Noah Hawley