Richard Preston Quotes

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Richard Preston

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• Invisible
• Expanding

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• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• The plate is in fair territory and the player never left the plate. It hit off the plate and stayed right on it. He's got to run. I teach my players to run out everything. If they hit it, they have to run. That was just a mistake and he's got to know to run on that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Player
  • Mistake
  • Plate

• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Honor
  • Hero

• Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Feeling
  • Beginning
  • Feelings

• I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• [Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Country
  • Party
  • Judge

• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Game
  • Play
  • Learn

• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Wise Man

• Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Common Sense
  • Constructs

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Escape
  • Dancer
  • Virtues

• Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Illusion
  • Forgotten
  • Truth Is

• What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.

  

  Confucius
  • God
  • Way
  • Harmony

• Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Life
  • Sufficient
  • Law Of Nature

• It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Scheme
  • Remedies
  • English Law

• I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Enthusiasm
  • Continue

• Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Lesson
  • Tried
  • Failed

• Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Laws

• Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Population
  • Qualities
  • Invisible