Echanics Quotes & Sayings

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing. — Pico Iyer

Back in the 1980s, the original stated purpose of the mortgage-backed bond had been to redistribute the risk associated with home mortgage lending. Home mortgage loans could find their way to the bond market investors willing to pay the most for them. The interest rate paid by the homeowner would thus fall. The goal of the innovation, in short, was to make the financial markets more efficient. Now, somehow, the same innovative spirit was being put to the opposite purpose: to hide the risk by complicating it. The market was paying Goldman Sachs bond traders to make the market less efficient. — Michael Lewis

The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence. — Carlo Rovelli

You're already mine. You just don't know it yet. — Kelly Oram

He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me. — Tony Todd

He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man's knees as a child. It was a comfort, though, to hear them again. To call them to mind. All these stories that made him more than just a vintner and more than just a man who carried a spear whom other men were willing to follow. More than just a man who lay dying. The stories made him one of the People, who would never die. — Stant Litore

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. — David Lloyd-Jones

And lash the vice and follies of the age. — Susanna Centlivre

Some days words flow through me like the Nile, and other days I'm as dry as the Sahara. I'm afraid you've caught me in the middle of a drought, but I'm confident rain shall fall again. — Chris Colfer

Have you ever wondered, Anne, in your untiring dance of seduction, whether you might not be dancing to Henry's tune instead of your own? I know how clever you are. How enticing. People whisper the word "witch" whenever you smile at him. But which of you is pale and hollow-eyed from too many scheming, sleepless nights? Which of you is growing more feverish day by day? Which of you is truly bewitched, Anne? — Philippa Gregory

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. — George Herbert

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. — Nicolas Cage

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge