All Quotes

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
‐‐ Robert Nozick

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
‐‐ Richard K. Morgan

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
‐‐ Dawn French

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
‐‐ Rachael Ray

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
‐‐ Kelly Jones

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
‐‐ Bill Gross

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

Exactitude is not truth.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
‐‐ Judith Light

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
‐‐ Ninette de Valois

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
‐‐ Francois Fenelon

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.
‐‐ Masashi Kishimoto

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

Exaggeration is my only reality.
‐‐ Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
‐‐ John Mackey

Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
‐‐ Beth Broderick

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

Example is leadership.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

Example is the best precept.
‐‐ Aesop

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
‐‐ Robert Cecil

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
‐‐ Robert Nozick

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
‐‐ Sam Walton

Excellence always sells.
‐‐ Earl Nightingale

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
‐‐ George Eliot

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
‐‐ Ted Engstrom

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
‐‐ Aristotle

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
‐‐ Ralph Marston

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice. I intend to be part of the solution and not the problem. You've just got to keep on banging out good performances.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
‐‐ Pat Riley