Diachronic Variation Quotes & Sayings

I woke to the sound of rain. — Sylvia Plath

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We thought her dying whilst she slept,
And sleeping when she died. — Thomas Hood

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government. — Margaret Thatcher

Hence, (25) since every finite body is exhausted by the repeated abstraction of a finite body, it seems obviously to follow that everything cannot subsist in everything else. For let flesh be extracted from water and again more flesh be produced from the remainder by repeating the process of separation: then, even though the quantity separated out will continually decrease, still it will not fall below a certain magnitude. If, (30) therefore, the process comes to an end, everything will not be in everything else (for there will be no flesh in the remaining water); if on the other hand it does not, and further extraction is always possible, there will be an infinite multitude of finite equal particles in a finite quantity - which is impossible. — Aristotle.

Let me tell you something right now, something that I don't want you ever to forget: Starbucks is an abomination.
Lex was speechless. She now believed that there was no way in a million years this man could possibly be a blood relative. — Gina Damico

Me, Eric the science geek, in the same house as Kelly the man-eater? — Cambria Hebert

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. — Garrett Hardin

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. — William Allen White

If you're good at it, you can win. — Dawn Fraser

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. — Chad Michael Murray

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Flowers are born, and they wither ... — Shaka

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas. — Thom Mayne

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such. — William Cowper