History After Agriculture Quotes

#1. The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

Jimmy Carter

#2. The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

Stuart Sutherland

#3. These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information ...

Paul Simon

#4. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.

Megan Shepherd

#5. But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.

A. L. Kennedy

#6. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Veronica Roth

#7. The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

E.W. Howe

#8. Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Bill Walton

#9. Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

Henry Rollins

#10. Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took.

Felix O. Hartmann

#12. I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.

Lars Von Trier

#13. For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

Bobby Sager