Jared Diamond Quotes

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Jared Diamond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1937

Topics

ScienceHistoryUncomfortableSocial

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

Maynard Webb

SportsResultsNumbersEntitlement

I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

Max Baucus

WorldThinkGuyI ThinkLuckiest

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

Rocco Buttiglione

SocietyValuesDebateKnowHierarchy

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

Roger Ailes

ChanceListenAnybodyWarrenElected

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

Mike O'Malley

AgeTryingI CanNationJustFront

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

Mike Birbiglia

CollegeWashingtonUpMassachusetts

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.

Louis Finkelstein

MindWorldFeelProblemJewishUs

Diamond planets truly are the most precious.

Debra Fischer

PreciousPlanetsDiamondMostTruly

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

Brandon Victor Dixon

LifeChristianHumanRealUpThings

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

Bobby Riggs

TennisWithoutSixTournamentOnce

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

Anne Robinson

LoveViewAweMothersDaughters

I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there.

Peter Uihlein

ThoughtIndiaGoNeverBeen

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