Accompanies Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know. — Michael Leunig

I'm most at home on the stage. — Alan Alda

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. — Anthony Holden

Don't make your journey toward success a competition - make it a love affair. — Debasish Mridha

But what about all those dead people we saw? Maybe they rescued us for real, got killed, and now we're screwed. Maybe we were supposed to do something, but now it's all been messed up and we've been left here to die. — James Dashner

People have always wanted to in some way inhabit the stories that move them. The only real variable is whether technology gives them that opportunity. — Frank Rose

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest — Arthur Schopenhauer

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the 'God is dead' phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual) is never to be confused with its acquired purpose: 'Anything in existence, having somehow come about, is continually interpreted anew, requisitioned anew, transformed and redirected to a new purpose.'

This is a liberating thought, which teaches us to never hold the history of something against its possible applications. Even if computers started out as calculators, that doesn't prevent us from playing games on them. (47) (quoting Nietzsche, the Genealogy of Morals) — Frans De Waal

The thought sent chills running down her spine.
Or, Cameron supposed, maybe the chill had something to do with the fact that she was still standing in the air-conditioned hallway wearing nothing but her T-shirt and underwear.
Classy. — Julie James

Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71 — Kahlil Gibran