Unpalatable Species Quotes & Sayings

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own. — Julius Lester

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others. — Lord Chesterfield

You can't just tell someone to trust you..
you gotta show them that they can trust you ... — Michael J Herbert

I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on his face. "But I do only what you force me to. You rationalize, Keeton. You defend. You reject unpalatable truths, and if you can't reject them outright you trivialize them. Incremental evidence is never enough for you. You hear rumors of Holocaust; you dismiss them. You see evidence of genocide; you insist it can't be so bad. Temperatures rise, glaciers melt - species die - and you blame sunspots and volcanoes. Everyone is like this, but you most of all. You and your Chinese Room. You turn incomprehension into mathematics, you reject the truth without even knowing what it is. — Peter Watts

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would learn by his experience. That has proven false in the modern world. Some people are simply unwilling to learn under any circumstances, which maybe, even then, wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so damned proud of it. — Nikki Giovanni

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman. — Joan Crawford

Wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else — Les Paul

There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there. — Robert W. Chambers

Deeds, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher

Music tells a lot about a person. I don't have to have a memory to know that. - Charlize "Charlie" Wynwood — Tarryn Fisher

Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start. — Bryce Courtenay

The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out! — Jack Canfield

The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The hallmark of a disorganized individual is that they never finish what they start. — Matthew Snider

About a hundred million years ago, the dinosaurs had everything their own way. They thought they knew all the answers. They thought they could hear the grass growing. Maybe they could. But according to Titsling and Boukanowski, their social life was a disgrace. They changed their sex every other month and used profane language, and at the age of three, at the very tender age of three, they would go steady in no uncertain manner and bring forth eggs as large as footballs! Without benefit of clergy or city hall. Extinction! That's what they asked for, that's what they got. — Brother Theodore