Thomas Nagel Quotes
The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
Thomas Nagel
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
Bahman Ghobadi
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
Bette Midler
They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
T. H. White
Things are useless without practice.
Erykah Badu
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
Vance Havner
... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens
I am a fox", the fox said.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
Kathleen Battle
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.
Evo Morales
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
Barbara Rosenblat
