Perdurance Quotes

#1. Only Aviva's long habit of taking the temperature of her own racism, of her biases and stereotypes about young black males (or about the iron-hard perdurance of their grandmothers) enabled Aviva to set aside, for the time being, her gut reaction - the boy was trouble - and admire Titus's stillness.

Michael Chabon

#2. But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.

R.A. MacAvoy

#3. Now Steffi - I'd done okay through most of the autopsy, but right about then I started feeling decidedly chuck-upsy.

Stephen King

#4. Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rosalind Wiseman

#5. The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Ralph Merkle

#6. But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

Tera Lynn Childs

#7. His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen when, in an uncharacteristic error of judgement, he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.

Mark Jackman

#8. Someone's magic was cleaving.

Susan Dennard

#9. Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr