44691 Quotes & Sayings

I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics. — Tim Lincecum

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. — Henry Miller

ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD? — John Irving

Adverse fortune is more beneficial than good fortune; the latter only makes men greedy for more, but adversity makes them strong. — Jonathan Haidt

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. — Duffy Daugherty

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory. — A.E. Samaan

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. — Hannah Arendt

Jace: "I guess we better move the trash. We can start with the Dumpster," looking unenthusiastic.
Clary: "You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?"
Jace: "At least they wouldn't be crawling with maggots. Well, not most of them, anyway. There was this one demon, once, that I tracked down to the sewers under Grand Central
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Clary: "Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now."
Jace: "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me."
Clary: "Stick with me and it won't be the last. — Cassandra Clare

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader. — Daryl Gregory

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. — Jonathan Haidt

We are afraid to fight the most powerful. And so, the domination of the tyrants continues. So long as they do not fall, the others will not truly fear us. — Brandon Sanderson

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people. — Salman Rushdie

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. — Antoine Predock