Nathan S. Kline Quotes
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
-
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
-
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
-
I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
-
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
-
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
-
I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
-
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
-
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
-
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
-
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
-
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
-
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
-
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
-
Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
-
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
-
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
-
For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.
-
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
-
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
-
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.
