Babetta Tuning Quotes & Sayings

You're caring too much about people, Alice," he says. "Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black." I — Cameron Jace

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. — Helen Keller

Roses bloom whether you praise them or not. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade. — William Eckhardt

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command. — Dallas Willard

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. — Charles Caleb Colton

Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer.

Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical romance transposed to the past could be rewritten without the futuristic elements and still work as a story, which is something that can't happen with SF. It works in romance, because the story is the relationship and that depends on character, not setting.

Lots of books take elements from multiple genres, and there are elements that put them into one genre or another, but setting isn't a key determinant. — Dave Robinson

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. — Agatha Christie

Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?' — Homi K. Bhabha

At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen. — Steve Smith, Sr.

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s. — Carter F. Smith

The advice I got from many quarters was 'do your time, don't let the time do you. — Piper Kerman

Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for. — Patrick Henry