Uniformitarians Quotes & Sayings

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence. — Masiela Lusha

I think like, 'And we have some problems here on the earth we worry about? Compared to likenothing. Just be happy. Don't worry be happy right now — Ilya Bryzgalov

Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians. — Joseph Prestwich

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny. — Tommy Hilfiger

He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky. — Helene Wecker

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary ... So long as I've learned something about why. — Alberto Giacometti

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.' — Katherine Waterston

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. — Ginni Rometty

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. — Owen Wilson

In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we've created is a way of fending off mortality. — Joshua Foer

But there was another thing Momo couldn't quite understand - a thing that hadn't happened until very recently. More and more often these days, children turned up with all kinds of toys you couldn't really play with: remote-controlled tanks that trundled to and fro but did little else, or space rockets that whizzed around on strings but go nowhere, or model robots that waddled along with eyes flashing and heads swiveling but that was all. — Michael Ende

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed — Alija Izetbegovic

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom, — Mark Epstein

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic. — Olivia Colman