Precisely Calibrated Quotes

#1. For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Sargent Shriver

#3. Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.

Patricia Cornwell

#5. I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.

Christopher Nolan

#6. It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.

Neil Bartlett

#7. In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally, minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. I get out my hairbrush and wish for her - the real Lillian, and not the worst, most selfish parts of her. I wish for a warm, true best friend, one who didn't die.

Brenna Yovanoff

#9. Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered. (Bk2:8)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.

K.C. King

#11. My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.

Alvin Lee

#12. Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.

David W. Mack

#13. She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

Linda Howard

#14. Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Roger McGuinn

#15. The dual ends of Arca's personality - he is both a press-shy introvert and, in his visual work, a bold exhibitionist - come through in the breadth of his compositions.

The New Yorker

#16. Quill pinched the bridge of his nose, wishing Ivy would stop using the word "nude.

Manda Collins