Top 12 Origin Of Species Key Quotes
#1. Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.
Nelson Mandela
#2. Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
Dick Armey
#3. The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.
Josiah Bancroft
#4. I think everyone is wounded in their sex," I said. "I can't think of one person who isn't.
Andre Aciman
#5. Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.
Susan Blackmore
#7. Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux
#8. ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#9. As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
Allan Bloom
#10. Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.
Sheri Dew
#11. Many of my patients continued to smoke, often furtively, during their treatment for cancer (I could smell the acrid whiff of tobacco on their clothes as they signed the consent forms for chemotherapy).
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#12. It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and then resistant and finally hopeless as you realize that you've snagged the bottom, that you have the whole planet on the other end of your line.
Tobias Wolff