Diachronically Quotes & Sayings

Somehow knowing the end doesn't make it less painful! — Ahmed Mostafa

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road. — Tony Snow

Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I'll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings. — J.J. McAvoy

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451. — Ray Bradbury

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man. — Charles Lyell

According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real "me" than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is! — Alan W. Watts

It always astonishes me when anybody does anything — F Scott Fitzgerald

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second. — Deepak Chopra

ETIENNE DELANCARRE Domingo Salvard," said Sabetha, reading out loud from the lantern-lit plaque beside the building's street entrance. "Master solicitor, bonded law-scribe, authorized notary, executor of wills and estates, Vadran translator and transcriber. Fortunes assured, justice delivered, enemies confounded. Reasonable rates." Locke — Scott Lynch