Sixth Extinction By Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

#1. I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

Rand Paul

#2. U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

Jimmy Chamberlin

#3. Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

John Yoo

#4. Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Giorgio Agamben

#5. If he makes me laugh,
he's got well...
half of my heart.

S G

#6. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

#7. Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

Shia Labeouf

#8. By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry.

Tyra Banks

#9. Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn't possibly do it without a savior.

Andy Stanley

#10. I'd advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you'll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you.

John Bunyan

#11. And because she jumped, our world began

Emily Henry

#12. By a pair of herpetologists. It was titled Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Elizabeth Kolbert

#13. I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

Noel Gallagher

#15. My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Richard M. Rorty