Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. . . . It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. . . . Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
Our family is a circle of strength and love. . . Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.
I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that would've surprised me back in January, when I was looking forward to big new novels from several authors I really love.
You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.
As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.
Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.
I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.
When your goal is to bring together the country in a substantive way to say that we're united by values and more - that are - you know, stronger than the things that divide us. That could be a moment.
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.
A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris , is a lie, useless and not even funny.
When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.