Diagonal Related Quotes & Sayings

They stared at each other, and Alessandro seriously considered turning away from his father's wishes and just taking this woman and running off somewhere with her. He could imagine being happy with her. He felt free, easy. The feeling was heady. But dangerously so. He could never just toss aside his father's demands that way, even if he wanted to. There would be too much at stake. — E. Jamie

Talent and success are cousins;
genius and excellence are twins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved. — David Weinberger

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. — Pema Chodron

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. — John Stuart Mill

Share a book and you'll make a friend! — Annie Lang

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. — E.B. White

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked — Ken Norton Jr.

And saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. — Anonymous

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that. — Brian Tracy

His secretary of many years' standing, Theodora Bosanquet, was struck by this persistent aspect of the Jamesian sensibility: 'When he walked out of the refuge of his study and into the world and looked about him, he saw a place of torment, where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenceless children of light.' Yet — Henry James