Fallowed Land Quotes & Sayings

His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life. — Nicholas Sparks

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! — Lewis Carroll

The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, "Aren't we nearly there? — E. Nesbit

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts. — Olivia Colman

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation. — Rajneesh

In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal. — Okakura Kakuzo

I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told. — Sherman Alexie

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings. — C. Sommerville

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation. — Robert Wright

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability ... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. — Arthur Koestler