E. O. Wilson Quotes

Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.

E. O. Wilson

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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Care
  • Take Care

• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Ideas

• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Picture

• You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Here
  • Egypt
  • Colonialism

• Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Write

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Born

• The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Money
  • Happy

• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Just
  • Cowboy
  • Frustrated

• The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Hard Work

• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe

• 'By Any Means' follows a team of behind-the-scenes crime-prevention team - not police. They basically go to the areas of crime where the police can't touch and organised crime fighting units can't go to - in the public eye - to bring about real justice, treading the line between 'true' justice and what the law says is justice.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Real
  • True
  • Law

• Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

  

  George Washington
  • Support
  • Easy
  • Familiar

• Every experience that you have is important.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Experience

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

  

  Edward Judson
  • May
  • Success
  • Suffering

• Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.

  

  E. O. Wilson