Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Nathan Myhrvold

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• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

  

  Barry McGee
  • World
  • Art
  • I Can

• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Head
  • Lion
  • Mouse

• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Single

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• Television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Together

• I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Life
  • Search

• If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Words

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort