Gemella Species Quotes & Sayings

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day.
Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done. — Walter Mosley

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. — Emmanuelle Beart

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real. — Juan Enriquez

I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. — Wendell Berry

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking. — Ferran Adria

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade. — Paloma Faith

In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour ... In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest. — Kathy Hepinstall

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay. — Basava

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day. — Toni Garrn

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people. — Jim Lynch

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality. — Diablo Cody

In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening. — Anne Perry