1517 Academy Quotes & Sayings

Fogg's most salient quality as an employee was his ability to be present while she fetched a sandwich. Beyond this, he contributed little that could be quantified. — Tom Rachman

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A.A. Milne

humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was
something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost Voices" by Sarah
Porter,109) — Sarah Porter

In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore corresponds to nothing. That is the conception formed by the following three propositions taken together:
1. God is all-powerful.
2. God is all-benevolent.
3. There is much misery in the world.
A god who was all-powerful but left much misery in the world would not be all-benevolent. An all-benevolent god in a world containing much misery would not be an all-powerful god. A world containing a god who was both all-powerful and all-benevolent would contain no misery.
Here, then, we have a mathematical proof bearing on a common religious doctrine. Anyone who is confident that he frequently comes across misery in the world may conclude with equal confidence that there is no such thing as an all-powerful and all-benevolent god. And this mathematically disposes of official Christianity, as has long been known. — Richard Robinson

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. — Dalai Lama XIV

Never do something for just one reason. — Jeff VanderMeer

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. — Don Marquis

I have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in 1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It sits on the shelf with over a hundred names crossed out. What is there to say? There are no words. I'll never understand why it happened to us. — Jerry Herman

Did you think of maybe telling me you were going to clean my gutters and needed a ladder to do it before taking off to look at ladders, leaving me talking to myself?" I asked. "When I took off, you weren't talkin'." I found this hard to believe, though I did have to take a breath so perhaps he'd escaped when I did that. — Kristen Ashley

And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phaedrus said, is "insane." To — Robert M. Pirsig