Davian Johnson Quotes & Sayings

History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires. This self-fulfilling circle of logic is responsible for some of the most magnificent and evocative qualities in our species, but also some of the most reprehensible. It is far too much to ask ourselves to escape the orbit of this logic, but recognizing its inherent circularity, and being skeptical of its overreach, might protect the week from the will of the strong, and the 'mutant' from being annihilated by the 'normal'. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It would be awful.
It would be brilliant. — Tim Relf

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.' — Richard C. Armitage

I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit. — Brad Willis

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. — Fernando Pessoa

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with — Eleanor Roosevelt

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension. — Tatiana Maslany

... bums on the outside, libraries inside. — Ray Bradbury

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. — Mason Cooley

Well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going — Cecelia Ahern

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower. — Josh Brolin

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct. — Rudy Giuliani