Embedment Connection Quotes & Sayings

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time. — Vikram Seth

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh

herself - as if he wanted to chase her, seize her, fell her, then consume her, methodically and thoroughly, enjoying every moment of the hunt and the pursuit, and savoring every last mouthful once he caught her. And my, but it seemed warm in her office today. Hannah was going to have to talk to the custodian about her thermostat. The school one, she meant. Her personal thermostat was something to discuss with her doctor at her earliest convenience. Almost thirty-six was way too young for a woman to be experiencing hot flashes. Even if the woman in question had just had a man like Michael Sawyer enter her orifice. Office, she quickly corrected herself. Enter her office. — Elizabeth Bevarly

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. — Ludwig Von Mises

One of the ways we love Him well is to hold His gifts with open hands, willing to give them up if they get in the way of loving Him. — Barb Raveling

You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable. — John Irving

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous. — Georges Canguilhem

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences. — Brandon Stanton

The wit taught by God to the bee
Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. — Rumi

What we have here is a bunch of junior-varsity players trying to get on the varsity team. — Matt Leatherwood Jr.

To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another. — Cornelius Van Til

Albert got her to her feet. He gathered her few wayward things and delicately placed a hand on an unburnt spot to help her walk. - You're going to have this two-tone problem for a while. Your backside is as white as virgin pearl. - A moan will have to suffice for a witty rejoinder. - I'll pretend to be dazzled. — Patrick Ness