Brittleness Of Material Quotes & Sayings

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it. — Jim Butcher

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits. — Mao Zedong

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it. — Margaret Thatcher

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music. — Alex Lifeson

Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics. — Alex Haley

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned. — P.L. Travers

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. — Mason Cooley

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. — Alexandre Dumas

But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was. — Saul Bellow

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. — Geraldine Brooks