An Outpost Of Progress Important Quotes & Sayings

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor

The tragedy of being; we believe all things but doubt the truth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs. — Peter Dobereiner

Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy. — Idries Shah

There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities. — Neal A. Maxwell

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here. — Christopher Isherwood

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car. — Bruce Springsteen

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me. — Terence

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. — Paulo Coelho

I glanced at Robert, who looked at Rose, who looked back at Robert. Well, odd one out, then. Maybe he would propose if I disappeared.

"Oh look! Upholstery," I declared, feigning fascination with a side chair in the corner of the room. — Tarun Shanker

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

All surfeit is the father of much fast. — William Shakespeare

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author. — Sharon Kay Penman