Peter R. Grant Quotes

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Car
  • Name
  • Media

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • World
  • Trying
  • Day

• I'd never hurt another person.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Person

• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Experience
  • Desire

• I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • True
  • Like
  • Move

• When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Conversation

• Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Always
  • Dreams

• I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I put up some great numbers.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Numbers

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Gay

• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Inspired

• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Punishment
  • Believe In God

• As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Manner
  • Explains

• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Love
  • Kindness

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

  

  Peter R. Grant