Relenting From Disaster Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy! — Frans De Waal

People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applies to everyone but you. They will bite you and you will die. — Don DeLillo

If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience. — Jerry Bridges

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist. — Terry Pratchett

Gray's dark stare bored into the eyes of the pirate who held Maeve. If you so much as breathe on her, I'll kill you, he silently vowed, — Danelle Harmon

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. — Camille Paglia

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941. — Albert Speer

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode. — Marc Guggenheim

ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines wasIf your eyes weren't open you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking' It hadn't meant meant much to me at the time. After all there'd been a guy in the class that i liked so how could i be expected to pay attention to literary analysis? Now three year later i understand the poem perfectly. — Richelle Mead

I suppose the pain of parting will be red and loud. — Vladimir Nabokov

Said that gems are lingering reminders of where the gods' hands touched the earth during creation. — Marie Lu