#Understanding Quotes
“I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.”
“I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.”
“I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.”
“The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it comprises a body of evidence which at the very least supports the general assessment that extraterrestrial life has been detected, and that a vigorous program of research and serious diplomatic initiatives is warranted.”
“You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.”
“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”
Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.”
“If you heard your lover scream in the next room and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle of blood. You wouldn't rush to the pinkie and say, 'Darling, are you OK? ' No, you'd wrap your arms around his shoulders and worry about the pinkie later. The same holds true if you heard the scream, ran in and saw his hand or -god forbid- his whole arm. But suppose you hear your lover scream in the next room, and you run in and his head is on the floor next to his body. Which do you rush to and comfort first?”
Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
Hosni Mubarak Former President of Egypt
John F. Kerry United States Secretary of State
Nabil Elaraby
Staffan de Mistura Diplomat
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi President of Egypt
Adel al-Jubeir
Bernardino Leon
Sergey Lavrov Diplomat
