Quotes About Evolution

This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch.

the melancholy of a world eternally under construction...

as if climbing down a ladder

In retrospect, it was only a matter of time before the Family Dinner passed into history and fast foods took over. I knew its days were numbered the day our youngest propped my mouth open with a fork and yelled into it, "I want a cheeseburger and two fries and get it right this time." I just didn't serve meals with show business pizzazz.

Carl Jung observed that the very things that made you successful in the first half of your life not only no longer

that's no longer necessary.

It was a line on our second album, October, that led from one record to the other. In 1981, a young man, I'd sung, "I can't change the world but I can change the world in me." Now, in my fifties, I found myself writing something different: "I can change the world, but I can't change the world in me.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

they are glad that we started as we did, and built ourselves up year by year, by a slow and natural process of growth.

Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.

Every new age has at its disposal everything that was fine in all past ages, and its greatness depends on how well it recognizes and preserves and brings to the aid of its own enlightenment whatever worthy and true things the dead have left on earth behind them.

He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.

No existe ciencia acabada, la ciencia vive superando errores y no estableciendo verdades.

Accident, agree, bagpipe, blunder, box, chant, desk, digestion, dishonest, examination, femininity, finally, funeral, horizon, increase, infect, obscure, observe, princess, scissors, superstitious, universe, village: those are just some of the everyday words that Chaucer introduced to the language through his poetry.

People don't change. Things do.

At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

It is of little use to quarrel with particular fashions, however absurd. Fashionable follies seldom stand their ground long enough to be made the objects of serious attack. And where they give way to it, it is only to reappear in some new guise.

time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be , particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also have to do with cleaning up. Cleaning up lies and "coming out of the closet" is getting more attention these days. Some day we will look back on these years of suffocation in bullsh*t in the same way we look back on all the years people lived in, and died from, their garbage.

What is true changes, so we can't tell the truth once and be done with it. It's an ongoing game.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

If you shake the Universe hard enough, change will fall out of its pockets.