Things Fall Apart Chapter 12 Important Quotes

#1. Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper ... about all they did was persist

Thomas Pynchon

#3. If only we could have picked our family...

Chloe Neill

#4. In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Douglas Engelbart

#5. At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

Keith Rabois

#6. I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

John Howard

#7. Some kneel and lie to God.

Elton John

#8. Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but no music.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#9. I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

Brian McKnight

#10. Above all, God is love and His plan is simple; to exist in the experience of love. Since love must be expressed and received, He put in place this reality to achieve His goal.

Michelle Carbotte

#11. Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Richard Paul Evans

#12. Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Winston Churchill

#13. When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

Lisa A. Mininni

#14. She's not merely my cat. She's my friend. She's my family.

Bree Despain

#15. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Paul Kalanithi