Isana Beutler Quotes

People may have said that without symptoms, you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses. ~ Bruce Beutler

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments. ~ Bruce Beutler

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it. ~ Bruce Beutler

Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture. ~ Bruce Beutler

A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop. ~ Bruce Beutler

Most people think coffee is what wakes you up in the morning. I believe it's actually brushing your teeth with hand lotion instead of toothpaste. ~ Khloe Beutler

My bones always crack. Sometimes, I like to imagine that one day, my back will split open, and beautiful wings will emerge. ~ Khloe Beutler

Mom once said that with kindness, you're able to fix almost anything. ~ Khloe Beutler

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize. ~ Bruce Beutler

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver. ~ Jaime Herrera Beutler

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court."
"And why is that?"
"Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience - only much more convincingly. ~ Jim Butcher

Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

The First Lord stared at her for a moment, his eyes cold. Then he spoke in a very quiet, precise, measured voice. "I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look, wife of my son, mother of my heir, at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to make hideous decisions I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them--because they have not had to be the ones who dealt with them." He took a short, hard swallow of wine. "Feh. Aquitaine thinks me his enemy. The fool. If I truly hated him, I'd give him the Crown. ~ Jim Butcher

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts. ~ Bruce Beutler

ample confidence to flirt with her bridegroom from across the crowded room. Whether she could maintain such command over herself in six or eight hours was quite another proposition. How easy she is in company. Everyone seems to love her. As I do. Well, perhaps not quite as I do... Darcy glanced over at Jane, who sat in state in an armchair with Bingley standing at her side. They looked golden together with their honey-coloured hair. Jane's serenity greeted everyone who approached with the same smile and blush, and one might surmise Jane could still not believe such happiness was to be hers. However, she seemed a little nervous, and Darcy could guess why. Bingley fussed over her, touching her ~ Linda Beutler

Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. ~ Jim Butcher

Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others." "No," Isana agreed. "Some of them are incompetent schemers. ~ Jim Butcher

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over. ~ Jaime Herrera Beutler

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected. ~ Jaime Herrera Beutler

I feel as though I can chew up nails and spit out a barbed wire fence. ~ Khloe Beutler

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. ~ Jim Butcher

I hate what you represent."
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"Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact.
"Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you. ~ Jim Butcher

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much. ~ Bruce Beutler