Derivados Do Leite Quotes & Sayings

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether — Theodore Sturgeon

The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie) — Michael Brooks

She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion more than they need anything else - even people like Zahra and Harry. — Octavia E. Butler

Similarly, Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French political philosopher and sociologist, in his classic Democracy in America, written after a lengthy visit in the 1830s, saw equality, not majority rule, as the outstanding characteristic of America. "In America," he wrote, the aristocratic element has always been feeble from its birth; and if at the present day it is not actually destroyed, it is at any rate so completely disabled, that we can scarcely assign to it any degree of influence on the course of affairs. The — Milton Friedman

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine inches deep into the beams of our minds. — Chigozie Obioma

My downfall, inevitably, was triggered by food. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish. — John Updike

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency. — Chris Prentiss

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! — Gaston Leroux

A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own. — Michael Shaara