Auto Increment Quotes & Sayings

You can't keep it no matter how much you beg. Dragons are not pets, Ivy. He laughed. — H.M. Ward

The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying. — Peter Watts

Life is lived a foretold conclusion, your eventual destiny is at the door — Deon Potgieter

Something comes cheap, it ain't worth much. That's true for knowledge especially. — Rick Riordan

Littlefinger laughed aloud. With gold and boys and promises, of course. Ser Lyn is a man of simple tastes, my sweetling. All he likes is gold and boys and killing. — George R R Martin

A Christian accepts responsibility whatever his environment. God has not grudged you intelligence
you are capable of answering the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my actions?' Therefore, there is no doubt that you are responsible. 'Temptation cannot but enter the world, but woe unto him through whom temptation cometh.' As to your transgression itself, well, many commit similar ones, but go on living in peace with their consciences and even consider such things as inevitable errors of youth. There are also odd men with the smell of the grave already about them who likewise still go on sinning, playfully shrugging off their responsibility and reassuring themselves. The world is full of such horrors. You, at least, have felt the full depth of your transgressions, and that's a very rare occurrence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet. — Henry Rollins

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause — David Hume

Desire creates its own object. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew. — Daniel James Brown

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day. — Steven Weinberg

Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was the passion of the soldier in some ancient crusade. The cult of the horse as their idol is as central to their lives as cocaine is to some and applause is to others. — Judith Krantz

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters. — William Howard Taft

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt. — Susan Sontag