Yellowhammers Place Quotes & Sayings

We are all astronauts on spaceship earth — Wubbo Ockels

So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity. — Wayne Teasdale

Tell me, what kind of functions does pain have when one is convicted to 100 whippings in Saudie Arabia? You claim pain has a function, I claim that's scientific rubbish. The only thing pain really does is cause an instant reaction that is not rational and usually quite erratic. The famous example of the hand in boiling water, for example. You say it proves pain has a function. But exactly because of the spasmic reaction lots and lots of people will drop the bowl with boiling water over their entire bodies causing serious burns. So what was the 'function' of this pain? Pain and fear cause confusion and trauma. If pain actually did have a rational function, chronic pain would not exist. — Martijn Benders

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore. — Gary Shteyngart

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life. — Dean Bakopoulos

An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right. — George Monbiot

Strangers are strange to each other. — Elizabeth Kostova

Young love sucked. Old love wasn't much easier, but at least you had some scar tissue built up around your heart to make it hurt a little less. — Tere Michaels

If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control. — Bobbie Kinkead

Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future. — Paul McGinley