Dichotomous Keys Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living. — Hugh Prather

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake. — Guy Burnet

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. — Harper Lee

No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves. — Agatha Christie

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists. — Christopher Bollen

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's nice to be one of the most beautiful people. — Maria Sharapova

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness. — Michel De Montaigne

People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going. — Elaine Stritch

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. — Victor Hugo

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. — Ikkyu

Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture. — Tariq Ali