E. O. Wilson Quotes

Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.

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• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Food

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Team
  • Feel

• I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Like
  • For Her
  • Certain

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Tennis
  • Table

• I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• I am, and remain, passionate about news.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • News
  • Passionate

• When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.

  

  George Gilder
  • Mean
  • Wealth
  • Politician

• Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Earth
  • Blessed

• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Philosophers

• Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.

  

  E. O. Wilson