August Weismann Quotes
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
Quotes to Explore
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.
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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
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Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
