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- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to…
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
- Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the…
- More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
- We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us…
- I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more…
- Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying…
- The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
- You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle