Poyer Summer Quotes

#1. Sure, It's a good thing, though." She leaned against the ship's wheel, squinted into the sun. "Because you're a women. If they're scared of you, they'll listen to you."
"That's how it works with men too."
Marjani shook her head and laughed. "Not always. Men have the option of earning respects.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#2. Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life, Danny, that thy friends may live again!

John Steinbeck

#3. From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

Irwin Redlener

#4. I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

Craig Venter

#5. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#6. Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

#7. A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#8. One day a week I seek to rest
from earthly toil and sorrow.
Revitalized, I find the strength
to battle new tomorrows.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

Fernando Perez

#10. Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#11. Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

Brene Brown

#12. You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

David Gemmell