Anthropocentic Quotes

#1. The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

Craig Venter

#2. You'd better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate."
"Really?" He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. "I'd like to watch that. You're making abstinence sound fun.

Brynn Kelly

#3. What's a strapless bra?" he finally asked.
"LIKE A TOURNIQUET FOR YOUR CHEST."
"Can you breathe if you're wearing it?"
"BARELY

Cammie McGovern

#4. What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

Brandon Sanderson

#5. I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

Nawal El Saadawi

#6. Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.

Brenda Shaughnessy

#8. I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

Jodi Picoult

#9. Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time
weeks, months, years, decades even.

Helen Prejean

#10. When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work.

Erika Mathews

#11. I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off

Maggie Stiefvater