Daldnursery Quotes & Sayings

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences. — Tom Robbins

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye — Mary Shelley

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go. — Jack Welch

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. — Oscar Hammerstein II

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world. — Orson Scott Card

Why would you want YouTube, Facebook or Netflix running in a decentralized way with no central body in charge? It eliminates the problem of excessive personal information on Facebook, or your YouTube viewing habits being monitored and marketed to. — Dominic Frisby

Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind - but to the child of God it overflows with consolation. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. — John Shelby Spong

You know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-"
"Going to the Eiffel Tower? — Cassandra Clare

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person. — Marianne Williamson

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. — John Podhoretz