Widened Pulse Quotes

#1. To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Plutarch

#2. When you were pulled out the way of the car, you were physically saved, but you spiritually died. You are displaced, Juliet. Your soul is in the Otherworld but your body is here.

Andrew Butcher

#3. Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Donald Johanson

#4. Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

Jan Hellriegel

#5. May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

John Darnielle

#6. My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

Billy Eckstine

#7. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Gaspard Mermillod

#8. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid

#9. [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Molly Haskell

#10. The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Francis Arinze