Checchia Quotes & Sayings

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. — Steven Pinker

She shielded her eyes with a salute to the afternoon sun. "Right there, where the ground is blackened, just to the left of that cloud, that's where the Presidential Palace stood." Rotating in a slow circle, her index finger pressed the past into the empty panorama. The market selling Levi's two decades before any licensed clothing store. The music college, where some years earlier a prodigy had learned to play the viola by listening to the two-hundred-year history of chamber music lilting through those open windows. She reconstructed the square for Akhmed - her voice raised every edifice from the dust, replanted every linden tree - because that was easier than apology. — Anthony Marra

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes. — Kim Basinger

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly. — Tennessee Williams

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. — Josh Billings

I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature. — Salman Rushdie

A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career. — Rebecca Mader

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future. — Stephen Kinzer

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it. — Shashi Tharoor