Dilations Quotes & Sayings

If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world. — Lanie Lane

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful. — Rose Macaulay

If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is about using HTTP for your network traffic. And if you ask an actual non-geek human, the Web means there are links and forms and a "Back" button. — Tim Bray

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. — J.M. Barrie

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. — Colum McCann

Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments. Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition, on the one hand; and on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of individualism and personal experience that makes cooperation impossible — Bertrand Russell

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. — Liev Schreiber

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs. — Nathalia Crane