Divergent Ferris Wheel Quotes & Sayings

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be. — David Crosby

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work. — Robert Sheckley

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. — Paul Gallico

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian. — Jeremiah Burroughs

For in this sickened world, it is better to believe in something too fiercely than to believe in nothing.' Words, words, wonderful words. But lies too. 'No, it isn't!' shouted Mosca the Housefly, Quillam Mye's daughter. 'Not if what you're believin' isn't blinkin' well True! You shouldn't just go believin' things for no reason, pertickly if you got a sword in your hand! Sacred just means something you're not meant to think about properly, an' you should never stop thinking! Show me something I can kick, and hit with rocks, and set fire to, and leave out in the rain, and think about, and if it's still standing after all that then maybe, just maybe, I'll start to believe in it, but not till then. An' if all we're left with is muck and wickedness and no gods, then we'd better face it and get used to it because it's better than a lie. Which is what you are, Mr Kohlrabi.' Mosca — Frances Hardinge

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ... Was ever anything so civil? — Anthony Trollope

Kindle, ah,' said Baxter, 'takes me back. — Ken MacLeod

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free. — Debasish Mridha

Don't let yourself be thrown away ... Continue on no matter what ... Continue to make a positive effort for the good. — Natalie Goldberg

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy

Don't worry about Sian," Louisa said, "things will get better."
"What, she'll stop hitting me?"
"No, but you'll stop bruising so easily. — Dylan Perry

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview. — Nick Davies

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight. — Jilly Cooper

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. — Leonard Susskind