David Quammen Spillover Quotes & Sayings

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads. — Voltaire

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied. — Nassau William Senior

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom. — Madeleine L'Engle

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. — Chuck Palahniuk

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner. — Georges Clemenceau

I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people. — Yishan Wong

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ. — Jimmy Carter

As your product evolves, adding new features becomes as easy as it was in the good old days of greenfield development. — Scott Millett

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. — Jeffrey Archer

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. — Sri Aurobindo

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does? — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend. — Nicholas Stern

Life is climb but the view is great — Meena Khan

You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause. — Karen Armstrong

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree ... — Hamish Blake