I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs… — Charlotte Smith Copy Share Image
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment.… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
“I’m having a hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society)… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
