Nationalism All Quiet Western Front Quotes & Sayings

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell? — Dorothy Parker

Being your sister is one of the best things about being me — Renee Ahdieh

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. — John Le Carre

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture. — Jonathan Dee

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. — Kofi Annan

Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family. — Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture. — Bjork

I've never had this." I whisper back, my voice shaky. "I want to keep it forever." He — Angel L. Woodz

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered. — Peter Straub

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world. — Nikolai Berdyaev

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show. — Nic Pizzolatto