Delli Colli Quotes & Sayings

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. — Stephen Lewis

This anchoring to a number is the reason people do not react to their total accumulated wealth, but to differences of wealth from whatever number they are currently anchored to. This is the major conflict with economic theory, as according to economists, someone with $1 million in the bank would be more satisfied than if he had half a million. But — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. — Zaha Hadid

FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It's the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It's a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it's one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong. — PZ Myers

History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "a set of lies agreed upon"). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too. — Chuck Klosterman

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell

Think about me lightly,
think of me, and forget. — Marina Tsvetaeva

When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged Innocent — Klaus Barbie

So if you can heal with your touch, why are you working here as like, Hagrid, or whatever? — Rachel Hawkins

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli

There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given. — William Henry Drummond