Afarre Quotes & Sayings

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA. — Ray Kurzweil

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon

The dedication had been anticipated nationwide. Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth's Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands ... — Erik Larson

Will the time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of microhistory? Will I reach a point where there will be a good chance, I mean a more than fifty-fifty chance, that any random idea popping back into the foreground of my consciousness will be an idea that first came to me when I was an adult, rather than one I had repeatedly as a child? — Nicholson Baker

time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But now I wonder
what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice. — Holly Black

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
[Better good afar than evil at hand.] — George Herbert

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization. — Steven Magee

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. — William Howard Taft

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act. — James Earl Jones

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln