Daylight Dialogues Quotes & Sayings

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history. — Lynn Margulis

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. — Idries Shah

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. — Margaret Atwood

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life. — Leland Ryken

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound. — Austin O'Malley

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all. — John Wolcot

It takes lot of practice to get it right. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. — Amy Grant

When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please? — Melina Marchetta

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central. — Iris Murdoch

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better. — Matt Ridley

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. — Arthur Bloch

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power in Balance. Balance in Power. — V.E Schwab