Entidade 21056 Quotes & Sayings

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. — Thomas Malthus

The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of rusting has begun. And then darkness, a cold wind, a shred of clothing fluttering where it is snagged on one of the doors which, quite unscathed, lies flat in the grass. And then daylight, changing temperature, a night of cold rain, the short-lived presence of a scavenging rodent. And despite all this chemistry of time, nothing has disturbed the essential integrity of our tableau of chaos, the point being that if design inevitably surrenders to debris, debris inevitably reveals its innate design. — John Hawkes

I am a Muslim and ... my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds . — Malcolm X

Love as you like. Like as you love. — Debasish Mridha

Runners aren't impervious to pain, we're just better at choosing what kind of pain we have to feel.

And when I run, that's exactly what I'm doing.

I'm asserting control over the uncontrollable.

I'm housebreaking a tornado. — The Oatmeal

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing. — Helen Humphreys

Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words, the first breath, the first though? — Elizabeth Kostova

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. — Pat Robertson

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. — Donella Meadows

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. — Aryn Kyle

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. — Gabriele D'Annunzio

I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine. — Tamara Summers

My body floated, loose from spent pleasure. — Anna Funder

We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it, that physiologists, for example, have particularly noble souls. — G.H. Hardy