Alvah Stone Quotes & Sayings

There had been many definitions of Man; he would make another: "The noise-producing animal." Now there was only the nearly imperceptible murmur of his own engine. He had no need to blow the horn. There were no back-firing trucks, no snorting trains, no pounding planes overhead. In the little towns no whistles blew or bells rang or radios blared or people talked. Even if it was the peace of death, still that was a kind of peace. — George R. Stewart

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today. — Marianne Williamson

Striding, finally, into the solitude. You feel as if part of your body has been ripped from you, as if flesh has been torn from flesh. But you feel powerful too, for you're free, after so long; the great burden of uncertainty, and guilt, has gone.

But then the anger comes.

At all the times in the past you've said I love you and felt stripped. All the times they never rang back. All the love affairs that evaporated, bleakly, into one-night stands. All the times they've drowned you out. Drained your energy. Your confidence. Stood you up. Walked out. Wanted a Chinese girl next. — Nikki Gemmell

Other people", Rose thought. "Other people and their bloody love. — Louisa Young

After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties. — Scott Lynch

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody. — Phyllis Diller

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout. — Learned Hand

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey