Oppeln Upper Quotes & Sayings

If I had to honour the best author, would choose Jesus, Author of Life and Salvation. — Evans Biya

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach! — J.K. Rowling

It is important to recognize guilt as the temporary teacher it is. — Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some. — Alex Ebert

You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way. — Bradford Cox

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand. — Marcel Proust

However, once technology enables us to re-engineer human minds, Homo sapiens will disappear, human history will come to an end and a completely new kind of process will begin, which people like you and me cannot comprehend. Many scholars try to predict how the world will look in the year 2100 or 2200. This is a waste of time. Any worthwhile prediction must take into account the ability to re-engineer human minds, and this is impossible. There are many wise answers to the question, 'What would people with minds like ours do with biotechnology?' Yet there are no good answers to the question, 'What would beings with a different kind of mind do with biotechnology?' All we can say is that people similar to us are likely to use biotechnology to re-engineer their own minds, and our present-day minds cannot grasp what might happen next. — Yuval Noah Harari

Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong. — Biz Stone

After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city. — Howard Schultz

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers. — Louise Rennison

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no. — Kaya McLaren

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. — Douglas Coupland

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it. — Sophie Hannah