Andoni Aduriz Quotes & Sayings

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth. — Isaac Asimov

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon

Found, except for X. I and U are used for J and V. There was no rune for Q (use CW); nor for Z (the dwarf-rune may be used if required). It will be found, however, that some single runes stand for two modern letters: th, ng, ee; other runes of the same kind ( ea and st) were also sometimes used. The secret door was marked D . From the side a hand pointed to this, and under it was written: The last two runes are the initials of Thror and Thrain. The moon-runes read — J.R.R. Tolkien

When the point of reading is, as it was for Peter of Ravenna, remembering, you approach a text very differently than most of us do today. Now we put a premium on reading quickly and widely, and that breeds a kind of superficiality in our reading, and in what we seek to get out of books. You can't read a page a minute, the rate at which you're probably reading this book, and expect to remember what you've read for any considerable length of time. If something is going to be made memorable, it has to be dwelled upon, repeated. — Joshua Foer

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard

There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax. — H.P. Lovecraft

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist. — Nostradamus

The key ingredient that is missing is a government that will protect the priorities of Heaven and the presence of God in our land. — Danny Silk

What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail? — Kya Aliana

I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade. — Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes you play a game even when you know you're going to lose or sometimes you leave a game even when you know you can win. — Unknown

I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised. — Cassandra Clare

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you. — Freya Stark

And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni