Acronyms Love Quotes & Sayings

Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too. — Kurt Vonnegut

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask? — Philip Roth

I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time. — Thomas F. Wilson

There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes - that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by many other Narratives besides ours. Each Narrative looks like a cosmos alone, to any consciousness that partakes of it. The Geometers came from other Narratives - until they came here, and joined ours. — Neal Stephenson

We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while. — Noble Smith

Success isn't always about triumph. It's about carrying on, continuing the battle. Even the fight can't be won. — Shannon Messenger

Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace. — John Updike

Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country. — Phil Klay

A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be truth. But no government, no big organisation, will pay for the truth. — George Orwell

Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn. — Rico Dasheem

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. — Confucius

But I do not think it necessary to believe that the same God who gave us our senses, our speech, our intellect, would have put aside the use of these, to teach us instead such things as with their help we could find out for ourselves, particularly in the case of these sciences of which there is not the smallest mention in the Scriptures; and, above all, in astronomy, of which so little notice is taken that the names of none of the planets are mentioned. Surely if the intention of the sacred scribes had been to teach the people astronomy, they would not have passed over the subject so completely. — Dava Sobel