Refractory Quotes

#1. The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.

Hermann Joseph Muller

#2. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

Cyril Connolly

#3. Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

William Shenstone

#5. There is a law in each well-ordered nation
To curb those raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory.

William Shakespeare

#6. The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.

Plutarch

#7. Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

Pliny The Elder

#8. I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Jodie Foster

#9. hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears. 11 Making a vow, she pleaded, "Lord of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

Anonymous

#10. So let me get this straight."I rub my nose."You've brought me out to hunt and kill animals with my bare hands?"A smile ghosts his face. He scratches his cheek. "Well teeth, but basically, yes."Oh God. This is his idea of going out? No wonder he hasn't got a girlfriend.

Samantha Towle

#11. The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.

John Densmore

#12. Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon.

Sydney Owenson Morgan

#13. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.

Anonymous

#14. Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Sylvester Stallone

#15. Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#16. A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Yann Martel

#17. People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

Dennis Crowley

#18. When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#19. There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in.

Donald Trump

#20. I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Tyson Fury