Chris Prentiss Quotes

If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

Chris Prentiss

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• I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Fate

• The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  

  Hadewijch
  • God

• She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Happy
  • Hand

• The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • Blow
  • Might

• I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Life
  • Past
  • Tired

• And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Weak

• He's been out running full speed, changing direction. As you look at spring, we've got to give him the ball enough so he stays sharp and stays healthy.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Running
  • Spring
  • Direction

• It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

  

  Edwin Feulner
  • Scare
  • Persuade

• The congressman's heart went out to them. He just might be the right member of Congress who can help them.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Congressman

• We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Fight
  • Energies
  • Worries

• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Start

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

  

  Suzanne Vega
  • Rules
  • Fights
  • Hurting

• One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Culture
  • Peace

• Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Different
  • Individual

• I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Myself
  • See
  • Do Not

• If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Cells
  • Receptors
  • Peptides