Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

HopeReligionSuicideHeavenAlive

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France

LoveArtEnoughInstinct

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

WorkGoodRestGoBeyondGreatest

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

Jean Reno

LoveRomanticWifeCalmBusyHotel

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

WarLegalLostResponsibleStructure

In Britain, many people love the royal family, and other people don't - but either way, we own them, and we have an opinion, and we know a lot about them. It's as though they're our own family.

Mike Bartlett

FamilyLovePeopleOpinionKnowWay

I do appreciate every single dollar I earn.

Miranda Lambert

AppreciateSingleEarnDollarEvery

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

Mitch Hedberg

EyesPeopleMeatDeli

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Jonathan Sacks

FearLiveFaithDayPeopleFree

These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.

Divyanka Tripathi

BeautifulRespectSupportPeopleMe

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

Sebastian Thrun

LearningScienceComputersLearn

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

Til Schweiger

ActionBondKindFansOnlyGermans

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

Noam Chomsky

ChangePeopleSocietyClimate Change

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