Emissivity Quotes & Sayings

Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival. — Liu Cixin

I lie when I drink and I drink a lot, — Dale Watson

Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would for ever be so until they either merged with the West or perished. — Richard Wright

[...] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity with the landscape into which she was being carried. A familiarity based not on the sighting of particular landmarks, but on her feeling that the very contours of the hills and fields, and the very shapes and colours of the buildings, now appeared as surviving monuments to the existence of a much earlier self whom she had long forgotten. She knew, of course, that they could not bring that self back to life, perish the thought, but they reminded her of it in a way which she did not find disagreeable. — Jonathan Coe

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome. — Rita Rudner

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. — Lauren Bacall

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws. — Toni Servillo