Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

If Wake and Vredenburg were correct, then those of us alive today not only are witnessing one of the rarest events in life’s history, we are also causing it.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Character
  • Sex

• In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • May
  • Morning

• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Work
  • Money

• There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.

  

  Andre Norton
  • True
  • City
  • Moon

• Fuck Bill O'Reilly. He's a muthafucking prick.

  

  Snoop Dogg

• Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

  

  Austin Grossman
  • Life

• When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up

• Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Death
  • Sleep

• Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • World

• The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • People
  • Live
  • Humanity

• And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

  

  Lisa Scottoline

• I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

  

  Fred Tomaselli

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.

  

  James Harden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Fun

• [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Home
  • Game

• If Wake and Vredenburg were correct, then those of us alive today not only are witnessing one of the rarest events in life’s history, we are also causing it.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • History
  • Correct
  • Causing