David M. Raup Quotes

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

David M. Raup

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• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • You

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Thought

• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Now
  • Weekend
  • Eating

• Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
  • Honor

• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Scenes

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• My ideal is that what we should do is to, to also rise above that and to achieve true non-racialism.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • True

• I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Money
  • Black

• I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Trying

• What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Loyalty

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Bad
  • Philosophy
  • Prepared

• A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

  

  Franklin Knight Lane
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

  

  David M. Raup
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Animal