Logo
Quote by Christopher Hitchens
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - I mus

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens

Other quotes by Christopher Hitchens

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, its a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. – Christopher Hitchens

Category:
Society
Author
Christopher Hitchens
Read Quote

Theres been some research in cognitive science, Im told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, its white noise. – Christopher Hitchens

Category:
Faith
Author
Christopher Hitchens
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. – George Eliot

Category:
great

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
great

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal ones being clever. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
great

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. – John Ruskin

Category:
great

Random Quotes

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Poetry

My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. – Jessica Hagedorn

Category:
Imagination

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision whats in their imagination. Whats the world going to look like when theyre my age? That really does take a huge imagination. – Richard Lugar

Category:
Imagination

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Flattery