Affinities Def Quotes & Sayings

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life. — George R R Martin

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy. — Nnedi Okorafor

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. — John Foster Dulles

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy. — Stuart Cloete

I'd been given opportunities others hadn't and I've been wasting them, and now I have to really wonder if it is too late." "It's not," I whispered, truly believing it. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own. — Thoraya Obaid

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. — Lynn Kurland

I don't give a fuck who can hear us, Garrett said angrily. This one's for me. — Tara Sivec

Douglas R. Hofstadter, an American researcher, speculates that the human mind has consciousness because it has the capability of self-reference. Since we can think about ourselves and think about ourselves thinking about ourselves, etc., we are capable of feeling that we are an "I". Contrast that with what we have learned in this chapter. This chapter tries to show that the computer's ability to perform self-reference is the cause of its limitations. Can we say that self-reference in computers brings limitations while in humans it causes consciousness? Perhaps. — Noson S. Yanofsky

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate. — Aaron Sorkin

How many times can a man go down and still be alive? — Ray Bradbury

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat. — Joe Lando