Herbert Spencer Quotes

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

Herbert Spencer

Quotes to Explore

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

Candice Olson
- Kids
- Space
- Crazy
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

Rachel Gibson
- Book
- Bad
- Down
Everything begins with an idea.

Earl Nightingale
- Idea
- Everything
- Begins
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

Samantha Shannon
- Work
- Music
- Girl
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

Ram Shriram
- Time
- Beautiful
- Sky
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Jackie Collins
- People
- Think
- Vanity