Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Basically, if you were a triceratops in Alberta, you had about two minutes before you got vaporized - is how one geologist put it to me.

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• It is a frustrating situation that I hope and pray that we may be able to reach agreement.

  

  Jack Straw
  • May
  • Hope
  • Situation

• I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Beautiful
  • Summer
  • Ugly

• The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Movement

• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Win

• There's a critical need to attract the best people in the world.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • People
  • World

• In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Disaster
  • Highways

• I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Important

• Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Hate
  • inspirational

• The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

  

  Confucius
  • Wind
  • Storm
  • Reed

• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Earth
  • Forces
  • Rotation

• I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Knows
  • Theory
  • Relativity

• We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each other.

  

  Takeoff
  • Play
  • Record
  • Minutes

• I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!

  

  Sabirul_Islam
  • Life
  • Age
  • Forever

• No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.

  

  Nixon Waterman
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Hands

• Basically, if you were a triceratops in Alberta, you had about two minutes before you got vaporized - is how one geologist put it to me.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Minutes
  • Geologist