Explosions In Beirut Quotes & Sayings

If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
co-author with Niles Eldridge — Stephen Jay Gould

Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two. — Lauren Oliver

The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain. — Johnny Vegas

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future. — Matthew Fox

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Civil disobedience was new to Lancre, but its inhabitants had already mastered some of its more elementary manifestations, viz, the jerking of rakes and sickles in the air with simple up-and-down motions accompanied by grimaces and cries of "Gerrh!," although a few citizens, who hadn't quite grasped the idea, were waving flags and cheering. Advanced students were already eyeing the more combustible buildings inside the walls. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere* and were doing a brisk trade. Pretty soon someone was going to throw something. — Terry Pratchett

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it. — David Foster Wallace

Are you still mad because i broke your phone" Jace said. "Because you broke my wrist, so i'd said we're even"
"It was sprained," Alec said. "Not broken, sprained — Cassandra Clare

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. — Bertrand Russell

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
— Tori Amos

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.
Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. — Takuan Soho

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are. — Anton Corbijn

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. — Mary Roach

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita