Blatherskite Meaningful Beauty Quotes & Sayings

American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win, — William J. Bennett

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. — Pierre Corneille

I don't know what to say," Joel said. "I figure that if you are there, you'll be angry if I claim to believe when I don't. The truth is, I'm not sure I don't believe, either. You might be there. I hope you are, I guess. — Brandon Sanderson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles. — Henri Bergson

People liked you when you almost won, and bought you drinks. "She only just lost" was a much better compliment than "she only just won." Runners-up — Terry Pratchett

The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold
the mind and the power to enjoy it. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird. — Rodney Brooks

The creatures came up the stairs a few at a time, pausing to sit up and sniff the air. Their eyes glinted in the darkness.They were a foot long. They were covered in moth-eaten grey fur and they had enormous fangs and big bushy tails, and there were maybe twenty of them, chittering from all around.
Vampire crack squirrels, thought James, and wished he hadn't. — Jonathan Blum

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. — Leo Buscaglia

Faults and defects every work of man must have. — Samuel Johnson

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science. — Joseph Alexander Leighton

I'm going to live right on. Dying is none of my business. Dying will have to take care of itself."

He came to me then, an old man weakened and ill, with my Nathan looking out of his eyes. He held me a long time as if under a passing storm, and then the quiet came. — Wendell Berry

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day

Some of you people just about missed it — David Byrne

Make
New FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVer
The Other is Gold. — Chetan Bhagat