#dl

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#carried #excuse #moral #motive #out

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #even #general #i #i think

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. ↗

— David Hackworth

#born-again #convert #days #east #either

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#away #books #come #deadlines #desk

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#big #coaster #construct #first #good

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. ↗

— William Hague

#east #every #government #hope #human

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? ↗

— William Hague

#catch #designed #guilty #headlines #law

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#felt #i #much #profoundly #upset

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#day #finished #i #mind #minimum