9flights Quotes & Sayings

If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good. — Ann Leckie

What happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. — Truman Capote

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. — Hermann Hesse

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person. — Jennifer Beals

She stopped when she saw the student Jason bowing his head with his eyes closed. "Jason, what are you doing?" He popped his gum, "I'm praying over Ms. Brenda's naps. — Emmanuel Sullivan

There was never a bad peace or a good war. — Benjamin Franklin

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible. — Anne Wojcicki

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. — Edmund Burke

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative. — David Pogue

It was Ivan's morning duty to open each box, identify the species, vigor, mood, and fang-count of the writhing things inside, and sort them by genuine urgency. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian. — David Zucker

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. — Maria Bartiromo

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity. — Marilyn Manson

Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs. — Alexander McCall Smith