Mark Pagel Quotes
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
-
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
-
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
-
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
-
American myths have never been colorless.
-
It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
-
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
-
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
-
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
-
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
-
I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
-
I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
-
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
-
Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
-
My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
-
My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.
-
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
-
It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.
Nastassja Kinski
-
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
-
To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.
-
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
-
It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we're not worthy of being called combat veterans is insulting to the majority of men and women who serve their country honorably.
-
The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.
-
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
