“Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.” SuccessResultsPlansSeeingAdvantageClaimsAgreeFinalsAll Time Author:Ammianus Marcellinus
“Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.” PersonsReasonValuesReligiousChanceSeeingClaimsFollowingPityAccustomedArbitraryReligious Values Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.” ThinkingImportantEyeRunningLevelsSeeingDesignProduceEvolutionCapableIllusionClaimsWingsLegsDrivingFlyingAdaptation Author:Richard Dawkins
“Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.” SeeingSpecialClaimsAgingFleshKicksAngleCautiousMomentaryJunkieNagging Book:Junky: The Definitive Text of Source: Junky: The Definitive Text of
“Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her, I remembered seeing her doing parts in movies and I went and re-watched stuff with hers and then met with her.” TogetherStuffSeeingMetsClaimsCourtCastsRememberedGalsSuperman And Batman Author:Greg Mottola
“[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.” KnowsHas BeensUseLostSeeingCryDespairUnderstoodClaimsAbsolutesCriticsPhrasesMistakenCheated Author:Jean-Paul Sartre