Dickon Game Quotes & Sayings

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist ... I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen. — Richard P. Feynman

To be a man, a boy must see a man. — J.R. Moehringer

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. — Aristotle.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. — Robert A. Heinlein

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively. — Peter Watts

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure. — Jacques Maritain

I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's getting the right person that's the challenge. — Bob Schieffer

book, you will learn meditation techniques that focus on solving the most basic problem of the mind: that is, the suffering and stress it bestows upon itself through its own actions and — Britney Brinson