Monocultural Quotes

#1. It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

N.K. Jemisin

#2. Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Vandana Shiva

#3. The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

Stephanie Mills

#5. If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent]

Karen Maitland

#6. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

Idi Amin

#7. Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library

Winston S. Churchill

#8. Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

Sheri L. Dew

#9. Why resist the overtures of mercy? Why say, "Let me alone," until God shall be compelled to give you your desire, since you will have it so?

Ellen G. White

#10. Instead of thinking how you can change yourself in order to please your partner, as so many relationship books advise, think: Can this person provide what I need in order to be happy?

Amir Levine

#11. I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.

Basia

#12. Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Michel Serres

#13. I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

Sebastian Coe

#14. We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Vince McMahon

#15. When you're able to see that and be grateful, life will be much easier and more exciting. Life offers opportunities to be happy as many as to be sad. The decision is fully yours. Be sure that you choose the right choice. (p.261)

Grace Melia

#16. I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

Cameron Diaz

#17. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Allegra Goodman