1697108a Quotes & Sayings

And she knew again that she was right. Damn it. Why did he keep letting her be right about all the crappy stuff? — Rainbow Rowell

[A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [ ... ] Today [ ... ] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful. — Stephen Jay Gould

We believe others are capable of the worst we ourselves are capable of — Karen Marie Moning

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it — Jean De La Bruyere

Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls. — Vladimir Nabokov

Starting small is the beginning of it all. — Rumont TeKay

Each of us is ultimately alone. — Sheldon B. Kopp

I never buy plane tickets out of a country until I'm in the country, so I get on the ground, figure out what I need, where I'm going, how much time I need, and schedule as I go along. — Brandon Stanton

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82 — Robert Harris