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  • My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. -- Orson Scott Card
  • Germs do not have a political party. -- Bill Maher
  • I'm a big Germs fan; most people are. -- Henry Rollins
  • On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. -- Max Muller
  • When you put Listerine in your mouth, it hurts. Germs do not go quietly. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. -- John Steinbeck
  • There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. -- Jim Lehrer
  • Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered. -- Malcolm Rogers
  • The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. -- David Hilbert
  • The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality -- David Hilbert
  • Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. -- Berthold Auerbach
  • There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide. -- Laurie Garrett
  • Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. -- James Madison
  • Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. -- Emma Goldman
  • Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality. -- Laura Wade
  • The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. -- Roger Wicker
  • I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us. -- Octavia Spencer
  • Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. -- G. Stanley Hall
  • When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. -- David Wilkerson
  • A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. -- Jane Smiley
  • There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. -- Norman Douglas
  • If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. -- Ernestine Rose
  • Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. -- Christian Lous Lange
  • Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield. -- William T. Vollmann
  • I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was. -- Howie Mandel
  • We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. -- Nikola Tesla
  • Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf. -- Lea Michele
  • I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
  • It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird. -- Alan Watts
  • Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. -- Joseph Joubert
  • Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze. -- Stephen King
  • In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death. -- Victor Hugo
  • How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying. -- Roman Abramovich
  • The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires. -- Joseph Conrad
  • There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease. -- James E. Talmage
  • When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick. -- John R. Erickson
  • Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain. -- Louis Pasteur
  • I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. -- George Vecsey
  • Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs. -- Lucretius
  • It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases. -- E. Cheraskin
  • I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales." -- Arthur Kornberg
  • ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. -- T.H. White
  • Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. -- Herman Melville
  • Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. -- Frantz Fanon
  • It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs. -- Daniel Handler
  • Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. -- James Clerk Maxwell
  • Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
  • What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you. -- Dionne Warwick
  • Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death. -- Wilfred Owen
  • Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. -- Frances Harper
  • It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons. -- Wendell Berry
  • The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  • The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training. -- Anatole France
  • It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? -- Jared Diamond
  • Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. -- Smith Wigglesworth
  • ..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch -- David Sedaris
  • The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread. -- Adolf Hitler
  • If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. -- W.S. Gilbert
  • The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. -- Thomas Malthus
  • A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. -- Joseph Joubert
  • The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress. -- Charles Darwin
  • My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip. -- A. J. Jacobs
  • The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves. -- H. G. Wells
  • Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs." -- Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
  • Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there. -- Chogyam Trungpa
  • When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived -- Arthur Koestler
  • Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth. -- Vera Nazarian
  • Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs. -- Nicole Richie
  • Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs. -- Joseph Pilates
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