Octavia E. Butler Quotes

A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

Octavia E. Butler

• People
• God
• Believe
• Nature
• Control
• King

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Fashion
  • Something
  • Which

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Really
  • Lucky
  • Superhero

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • War
  • History
  • Legacy

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Compare

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heaven
  • Mercy
  • Missionary

• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Fighting

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
  • Heaven

• I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Meaningful

• A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • God
  • Believe