Guns Germs And Steel Quotes & Sayings

We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease — Margaret Thatcher

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? — Jared Diamond

When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. — Sean Bean

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move. — Arthur Smith

I am loving a lot. I am just loving and loving and loving. A lot of people around me really see a love in me and a love in themselves. — John Assaraf

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. — Louisa May Alcott

It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep. — Herman Melville

I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that. — David Salle

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. — Banana Yoshimoto

Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?" asked Becks. "Is it a union requirement or something? — Mira Grant

single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light; — Colin Meloy

Americans had become lazy and irresponsible, focused on the pursuit of sex, money, and pleasures, unwilling to sacrifice and prepare for the obvious threats all around them. What fools to think "Guns, Germs and Steel" would no longer shape human history. For decades they partied at the Coliseum, enjoying the games and government handouts, the illusion of a protected empire. Sedated with unconstitutional entitlements. Freed from responsibility by a pandering political system, a corrupt culture, and professional soldiers who kept the wolves at bay. — Drew Miller

This is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon. — John Green

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. — Orson Scott Card