Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
Paige VanZant
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei
In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
Kapil Sibal
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
Kate Williams
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Madeleine L'Engle
Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
A. E. Housman
What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
Kenny Dalglish
Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!
Akkineni Nagarjuna
If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.
Don Wright
To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.
Bruce Wilkinson
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"
Bill Henson
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
Franz Kafka
'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Anne Rice
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
Studs Terkel
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.
Elizabeth Kolbert
