Alison Jolly Quotes

#1. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

Charles Colson

#2. That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Ray Bradbury

#3. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.

Alison Jolly

#4. I'm great at making love, at least for the first 20 bucks, and for about 30 minutes after that I just sort of lay there, trying to stretch out my investment.

Jarod Kintz

#5. Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

Alison Jolly

#6. You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

Ginni Rometty

#7. If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.

Alison Jolly

#8. At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don't, you will go insane.

Matt Haig

#9. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#10. We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

Alison Jolly

#11. I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Emma Thompson

#12. People who ought to die of shock and exposure don't die of shock and exposure, et cetera, et cetera. The human frame is tougher than one can imagine possible. Moreover, in my experience, a physical shock is more often fatal than a mental shock.

Agatha Christie

#13. Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

Alison Jolly

#14. If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

Sean Liburd

#15. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Dwight L. Moody