Compstall Quotes & Sayings

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people. — Adam Smith

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!"
Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze.
"I didn't mean ... "
"No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti. — Libba Bray

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life. — Andre Gide

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. — Ridley Scott

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose. — Luis Suarez

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. — Annie Dillard

Happy the man ... with a natural gift
for practising the right one [art] from the start
poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless;
whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass
like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye. — Seamus Heaney

Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance. — Aleister Crowley

Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself. — Pearl Zhu

Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me. — Fernando Pessoa