Uvic Quotes & Sayings

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes. — Arthur Caplan

I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and picks up a bit of this and a bit of that. I was confirmed a Christian when I was a kid purely because I wanted a piece of jewelry, so I don't know whether this is just another extension of that. — Richard Ashcroft

Understand that being able to say, 'I don't know what to do with my life' is an incredible privilege that 99% of the rest of the world will never enjoy. — Chris Ware

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them. — Steve Nash

I thank them for the same service. — M. Scott Peck

Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend. — Sukant Ratnakar

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause. — Sam Kinison

Frankie scanned her eyes. I don't ask for things. I take them. — Holly Hood

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway. — Christie Hefner

A great essence of life lies in the distinctive impacts mankind is able to make on earth, notwithstanding the challenges, oppressions and oppositions we face — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm alive and I want to keep living. — Diego Maradona

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. — Hans Blix

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together. — Robert A. Heinlein

The answer to our cry which God gave in Jesus infinitely transcends our expectations, achieving a solidarity which cannot be human alone, but divine. Only the God who is love, and the love which is God, could choose to save us in this way, which is certainly the lengthiest way, yet the way which respects the truth about him and about us: the way of reconciliation, dialogue and cooperation. — Pope Benedict XVI

A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive. — Frederick Lenz

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. — William Shatner