Quotes About Ontography

#1. Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. It needs only to be good enough, which in the case of our species meant a level of intelligence sufficient to enable us to outwit the competitors in our ecological niche

Ray Kurzweil

#4. I'll have another real life Minecraft adventure.

Jake Turner

#5. There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

Billy Joe Saunders

#6. I woke up and one of us was crying.

Elvis Costello

#7. Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

Dada Vaswani

#8. He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

Max Beerbohm

#9. It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

William Morris Davis

#10. Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

Billy Graham

#11. She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

Homer

#12. Love is never just a four letter word.

Colin Tegerdine

#13. People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Seth Godin

#15. If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

Mike Birbiglia