Avalanching Aussa Quotes & Sayings

A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein

I didn't think he was a robot ... but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha! — James Patterson

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. — David Sedaris

Travel now by all means - if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space. — Oliver Sacks

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly. — Gudjon Bergmann

When I first met you, I was ready. I had a space for you. — Rachel Joyce

Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique way; and some of our newer brain components talk to each other via some very ancient structures indeed. Our brains are makeshift structures, opportunistically assembled by Nature over hundreds of millions of years, and in multiple different ecological contexts. — Ian Tattersall

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony. — Confucius

When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word - the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different. — Ian McEwan

Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything. — Victor Hugo