Extinct Quotes
135 quotes by 117 authors
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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of…
— David Attenborough
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Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
— Paula Abdul
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
— Jim Cymbala
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
— Brett Hull
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
— Peter Benchley
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now…
— Anton Chekhov
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
— Bertrand Russell
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For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
— Douglas Adams
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
— Fred Allen
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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last…
— Geronimo
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The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive…
— Tom Hooper
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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.
— Marilyn Manson
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The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass…
— Julius Caesar
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
— John Milton
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Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct....
— Joel Achenbach
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The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
— Georg Trakl
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
Who Wrote These Extinct Quotes
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