Babits Quotes & Sayings

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! — Abraham Lincoln

When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life. — Robert Black

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation. — Peter Conrad

As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well
a trick I had learned from my father. — Maria V. Snyder

Before us fog, behind us fog, and beneath us a sunken country. — Mihaly Babits

I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all. — Edward S. Curtis

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by. — Nicole Williams

Making regular contributions to a reservoir of trust is the foundation of a relationship. — Marty Babits

Now I understand," said the last man. — Arthur C. Clarke

I guess you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much gorier. The phony one, the one you know Was cooked up years and years ago And made to sound all soft and sappy Just to keep the children happy. -Ronald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes — Cameron Jace

Bob keeps insisting that I can do anything I put my mind to. But he's referring to my old mind. My new mind is broken and doesn't give a whack about the left or my old mind's reputation for success. — Lisa Genova

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. — Ron White

It's all about the find when it comes to love, the moment when you meet the one person in your life you can't possibly live without, that was — Meghan Quinn

He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it might flow between ordered banks to the sea, there to vanish. — Claudio Magris

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses) — Robert A. Caro

And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn't matter, either. She seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a priori order as shoe size and vocal pitch and the shape of one's fingernails. The sort of thing that thinking about won't change one bit. And that much said, well, she had a point. — Haruki Murakami

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy

True power. Limitless power - only graced a fair few. It gave those lucky few the ability - the nobility, to be courteous and polite. All while holding their fucking balls in their hands. — Pepper Winters