Paradigmatically Quotes & Sayings

My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!" — Milton Berle

It is a battle that intensely interests humanists (the International Humanist and Ethical Union is one of the most responsible and persistent of the NGOs at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva27) because the concept of rights is so paradigmatically humanistic: when the instruments of the international Human Rights Bill were being forged, there was no claim that their terms and principles were drawn from anything other than human experience, nor that their observance would get anyone into heaven. No, the claim was then, and is now, only that their observance would make this world a vastly better place. — A.C. Grayling

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film. — Adrian Lyne

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place. — Steve Earle

The only limit is the one you set yourself. — Felix Baumgartner

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us. — Adam Clarke

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. — Simon Conway Morris