Brutal Quote by Douglas Preston Download Open image “The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.” — Douglas Preston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutal Stupid Thousand Wisdom Wise
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A group of idiots led by a wise man can defeat a group of wise people led by an idiot. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. — Mohlatsane Qelemotse Copy Share Image
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting… — douglas preston Copy Share Image
“A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding?” he asked. “Sipping syrup?” “It’s a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.” “A… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
When my friends have been heartbroken, I give them a shoulder to cry on and some brutal advice. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
