Catastrophism Quotes

#1. The only thing that's fair about me is the colour of my hair. People should remember that.

James McClure

#2. Some people should not be allowed to see beyond your surface. Seeing your vulnerability is a privilege, not meant for everyone.

Yasmin Mogahed

#3. The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

Paul Hellyer

#4. You're right. I don't know your real name. But I don't know mine either and it's never stopped me from knowing who I am or taking what I want.

Aleatha Romig

#5. Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

William Shakespeare

#6. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

#7. I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Elizabeth I

#8. When nature fails, we turn to art.

Umberto Eco

#9. When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

Laozi

#10. You are nuttier than a fruitcake, that's what you are!

L.T. Suzuki

#11. When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with their own property. In reality, deciding for ourselves is the only way we can ever have true love, for then we are giving freely.

Henry Cloud

#12. I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Elton John

#13. For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. -But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Arthur Rimbaud

#15. I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

D.L. Moody

#16. The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.

Andre Malraux

#17. Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

Patricia Churchland