12as569t401 Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. — Augustus William Hare

Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything was new, down to bird song and grass blades. By the time she had reached adulthood, the town around her was like a grandmother who had used up all her stories and now simply rocked on the porch. The same flowers, the same streets, year after year. She longed for someone more exotic. A prince. A pirate. — Kathy Hepinstall

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story. — Barbara Tuchman

The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow. — John Hudson Tiner

We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. — Bill Gates

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name. — Mike Shinoda

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process. — Hunter S. Thompson

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep. — Edna Ferber

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. — Albert J. Nock

I want to be a Half Code. I want to be Black and White, the best of both. — Sally Green

There's something really interesting in the way you shy away from virtuous touch," he said.
"I don't mind the virtue part. It's you I mind. — Frankie Rose

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere. — Jenny Offill