Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

D. H. Lawrence

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

George Wald

We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

John Carpenter

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

Benjamin Rush

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .

Anthony Storr

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Antoine Rivarol

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Bertrand Russell

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Vanna Bonta

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Sathya Baba

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

Aaron Brown

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Charlie Skelton

He was very, very talented. In the beginning, he is a little obnoxious, but he learns humanity near the end.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.

Ashley Tisdale

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashton Kutcher

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Bill Vaughan

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

Michael Phelps

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

Don Bluth

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.