Powwow Wild Quotes

#1. One more try,' he asked, 'We are not quite done.' 'What is the use of trying?' 'It is a thing which people do.

T.H. White

#2. My religion starts from where your arguments end.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#3. You're a siren who doesn't need to sing.

Penny Reid

#4. The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

E. O. Wilson

#5. There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

John Henrik Clarke

#6. Climate change is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Ban Ki-moon

#7. God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

J.G. Ballard

#8. Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Seth Klarman

#9. The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

Nadine Gordimer

#10. We learn ...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else

William Glasser

#11. I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

Sonia Sotomayor

#12. Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Teppic hadn't been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff.

Terry Pratchett