Categ Quotes & Sayings

At any given moment, millions of systems are at work all around us. The blood pumping through our veins. The planets. The food chain. They're all super-specific systems linked to one another. Some of the systems occur organically as a greater part of the universe, like surprises and sunsets. But others are just made-up. Like, why is the school day eight hours long? And why is it that, even though I'm the smartest person in the world, I can't vote? The arbitrariness of it all is the thing that drives me nuts. — Gabby Rivera

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do. — Nathan Myhrvold

we had better do what we have to do at once. — C.S. Lewis

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. — Norman Maclean

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. — Rose George

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. — Charles Spurgeon

You should breathe deeply and chant, 'Money will easily and effortlessly flow into my life' as often as you can every day. Things will start to change after a month. If you believe you will be financially secure, then you are opening yourself up to change. — Louise L. Hay

If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need. — Alexia Adams

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong. — Nathan Sawaya