“Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.” PeoplePersonsSimpleBrainMercyCloudsAttributesElectricityTemperamentDrifting Author:Jonathan Nolan
“Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.” BrainMercyPhrasesExposedTravelerGeneralization Author:Virginia Woolf
“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.” HandsTurnsBrainFictionQuietMercyTurn OffSubmissive Author:Gary Shteyngart
“When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.” EnoughTodayChallengesBrainEnvironmentHealthyMercyWitScratchesOur EnvironmentHad Enough Author:Philippa Perry
“The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.” WorldGivingSoulScienceJoyJusticeBrainGloryMercyMathematicsEngineeringBondageFilling Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.” PeopleMenHeartFatherBrainBreakMy HeartMercyForgivingHeavenlyMultitudesYardsSkullsHeavenly FatherForgive Me Book:The Poisonwood Bible Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.” KnowsLongMadeHandsEvilVoiceChurchMemoriesDarkBrainMusicDoubtPiecesPlayerRocksBrotherMercyRoseRememberedPianoSatNo DoubtRock MusicKeyboardsCongregationTeddyStrangling Author:James A. Baldwin
“What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.” ThinkingWayNeedsBrainKnowingPossibilityWindBehaviorAdultsMercyResponsibleSpeciesPatternsCaringLiberationTrappedAggressionHierarchyDominanceVastnessCerebralLizardsReptilesBaboonsBehavior Patterns Author:Carl Sagan
“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.” HeartPainSufferingHopePeaceUnderstandingNaturalBrainCompassionPsychologyGraceEmotionalHealthGoodnessDepressionAnxietyHeartbreakForgivenessMercyAngerPatienceMental HealthRageMental IllnessPityConfusionHeartacheChemistryDisorderSympathyTemperMentalSecrecyHostilityRottenImpatienceUnnaturalCognitionAnger ManagementCombustionPassive AggressiveTrue ColorsCold HeartedForeignBottled UpFlammable Book:Healology Source: Healology
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!” GodFeelingsMotherPresidentJusticeBrainLibertyMagicBibleLaborDignityMercySlaverySlaveFoolishCrueltyGreatRepublicEgyptWickednessMosesEntitlementKingPerformanceJehovahSmallYahwehThe BibleExodusSavageChainAaronLizardTurtleMonarchContemptibleSorcerersManaclesPuerileJugglery Book:Some Mistakes of Moses Source: Some Mistakes of Moses