Lionel Shriver Quotes
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
-
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
-
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
-
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
-
All my books are optimistic!
-
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
-
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
-
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
-
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
-
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
-
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
-
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
-
My wife watches me like a hawk.
-
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
-
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
-
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
-
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
-
I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
-
The Egyptian philosophers ventured on the perilous task of seeking out some analogy to the mode of operation employed by the Author of Nature in the first creation of organized beings, and they compared it to that which governs the birth of new individuals by generation.
-
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
-
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
