Quotes About Permutation

#1. The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns warm or cold is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

Ilana Mercer

#3. Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

Ashley Bickerton

#4. In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.

Anthony Doerr

#5. : There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Guillermo Del Toro

#6. I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

Judy LaMarsh

#7. Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that partner usually suffers for it.

John Connolly

#8. I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.

Charlaine Harris

#9. So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some different permutation and shape; perhaps the body is this hypersensitive, revengeful entity, a ledger book, a warehouse of remembered slights and cruelties.

Thrity Umrigar

#10. Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

Hugh Jackman

#11. Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

Alice Morse Earle

#12. Don't leave a man behind - especially not me. It's

Hugh Howey

#13. The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

Fritjof Capra

#14. The thing is, sometimes, you just have to teach people a lesson. Either that or resort to homicide, and I'd rather not go to jail.

Kylie Scott

#15. I feel like I'm in one of those teen shows where a caring friend lets her naive schoolmate know that the popular guy in school is spreading rumors about her. Of course, those usually end with everyone finding out they have chlamydia instead of a vampire husband, but the concept is the same.

A.M. Robinson

#16. That girl can barely spell her name.

Tupac Shakur

#17. Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred - other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.

Halldor Laxness

#18. I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

Jody Hill

#19. For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Charles Stross

#20. Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

Jerry A. Coyne