Farbridge Barn Quotes & Sayings

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research. — Mario Bunge

I don't want to be owned by anyone. — Lena Headey

Cynicism is for lightweights. — Jewel

No outcome is certain, even when it seems so. Fates can change with the swing of a bat, or the flip of a switch, or the closing of a circuit.
It all came down to how far you dared to go to accomplish what the world thinks can't be done. — Neal Shusterman

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together. — John Battelle

Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man. — Orson Scott Card

I HAD one clear day of happiness, and I shall never forget it. Even the miserable ending to it cannot change its quality in my memory; for everything that Jennie and I did was good, and unhappiness came only from the outside. Not many - lovers or friends - can say as much. For friends and lovers are quick to wound, quicker than strangers, even; the heart that opens itself to the world, opens itself to sorrow. I don't think that we spoke of the question of where Jennie was to stay that night. She was sailing in the morning (on the Mauretania, I remember she told me - how strange it was to hear the old name again) and we both seemed to take it for granted that we'd stay together until then. We — Robert Nathan

I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T'excel the golden age. — William Shakespeare

Mistaken
regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race. — Madison Grant

She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was. — Ian Frazier

They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light that makes you feel like you live a life, when all you really do is eat what the light tells you to eat and squirt pee and pump poo. And watch the changing light! — Robert Stikmanz

The four men were in the kitchen laughing over breakfast when the door slammed open with such force that it knocked a picture off the wall. In unison, they jumped to their feet, not knowing what had hit them.
"What?! It wasn't enough for you to shoot me and kidnap me, so you had to go and butcher my hair? IS THAT IT?" she yelled at the top of her lungs. — Debra Trueman

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion