Ebots Quotes & Sayings

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side. — Ann Leckie

Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can't see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They assume evil lurks behind every shadow, in every corner not illuminated. But their fear of the unknown is often what really terrifies them. They find comfort seeing in the daylight for that reason, but the irony is they are often more blinded by their comfort than by the shadow of night. It's a pity. If they could overcome their fear of the unknown they might realize that the unknown is not evil, it is simply an opportunity waiting to be explored. The night is no more a domain of evil than the daylight, both were created good, both have evil lurking in them. When you can overcome your fear, the night becomes a domain of beauty interlaced with danger, and that is exciting! — M.R. Laver

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. — Henri Nouwen

But love, child, love is the root of all that is good, and the root of all things that are evil. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony. — Julian Barnes

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love
were they not real tears in his eyes?
but he was not in truth behaving with love. — M. Scott Peck

God made the world with a heart full of love,
Then He looked down from Heaven above,
And saw that we all need a helping hand,
Someone to share with, who'll understand.
He made special people to see us through
The glad times and the sad times, too;
A person on whom we can always depend,
Someone we can call a friend.
God made friends so we'll carry a part
Of His perfect love in all our hearts. — Khalil Gibran

Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state — Thomas Jefferson

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T. — Sy Montgomery

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it. — Suzanne Collins

You're everything to me, Peaches. You always have been. Always. You're the best thing I've ever had in my life." He kissed her. "You're my everything. — Sophie Jackson

Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working. — Miya Tokumitsu