Douyon Prime Quotes & Sayings

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. — Robin Hobb

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music? — Patrick Rothfuss

And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the other sciences, he will adopt the attitude of primitive, ignorant man; but he will adopt them forcefully and with self-sufficiency, and will not admit of- this is the paradox- specialists in those matters. By specialising him, civilisation has made him hermetic and self-satisfied within his limitations; but this very inner feeling of dominance and worth will induce him to wish to predominate outside his speciality. The result is that even in this case, representing a maximum of qualification in man- specialisation- and therefore the thing most opposed to the mass-man, the result is that he will behave in almost all spheres of life as does the unqualified, the mass-man. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. — Burton Richter

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. — Richard Harding Davis

Farvell," she said in Fjerdan. "May Djel watch over you until I can once more. — Leigh Bardugo