Lineages Quotes

#1. Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.

Judith Merkle Riley

#2. For one of the toxic things about Lineages was that rich avout could get not-so-rich ones to do things for them in exchange for better food, better drink, and better lodging.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.

Charles Stross

#4. Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Khaled Hosseini

#5. Never be afraid to chase your dream at any age.

Kristopher Belman

#6. I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#7. I really need a therapist.

Topher Grace

#8. Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

George C. Williams

#9. Life is a process of changes; happy and sad.
Life is beautiful; and Life is happiness

Ellen J. Barrier

#10. Commoners had to prostrate themselves before high-ranking chiefs. All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production.

Jared Diamond

#11. Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

Niles Eldredge

#12. On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Ernst Mayr