5071c Quotes & Sayings

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live. — George Bernard Shaw

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace
it. — Veronica Roth

It meant that when she saw him for the first time in every life,Daniel was already in love with her. Every time. And always had been. And every time, she had to fall in love with him from scratch.He could never pressure her or push her into loving him. He had to win her anew each time. Daniel's love for her was one long, uninterrupted stream.It was the purest form of love there was,purer even than the love Luce returned. His love flowed without breaking,without stopping. Whereas Luce's love was wiped clean with every death, Daniel's grew over time, across all eternity. How powerfully strong must it be by now? Hundreds of love stacked one on top of the other? It was almost too massive for Luce to comprehend. He loved her that much,and yet in every lifetime,over and over again,he had to wait for her to catch up. — Lauren Kate

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes. — John Curran

Men always think I'm too demanding... but all I ask is that they treat me like the goddess I am. — Kathy Shaskan

I will venture to go ... but remember that you must hold the ropes. — William Carey

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. — Richard Pryor

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what. — Bob Dylan

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! — Anne Frank

Be good to those who are good,
and just to those who are not;
this is true wisdom.
Do good unto others,
not expecting them to do good unto you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The germ of creation lies in violence. — Rudolfo Anaya

Japanese soldiers split open the stomachs of pregnant women and bayoneted the fetuses; they tied up local farmers and used them for target practice; they tortured thousands of innocent people in ways that rival the Gestapo at its worst; and they were pursuing deadly medical experiments long before Dr. Mengele and Auschwitz. — Laurence Rees

I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well. — Maggie Gyllenhaal