Faunae Quotes & Sayings

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations. — John Stossel

Inventory:
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. — Dorothy Parker

To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physical knowledge, is to shift the constituents of the never-varying total. The law of conservation rigidly excludes both creation and annihilation. Waves may change to ripples, and ripples to waves; magnitude may be substituted for number, and number for magnitude; asteroids may aggregate to suns, suns may resolve themselves into florae and faunae, and floras and faunas melt in air: the flux of power is eternally the same. It rolls in music through the ages, and all terrestrial energy - the manifestations of life as well as the display of phenomena - are but the modulations of its rhythm. — John Tyndall

Well, you are awfully pale." I exhaled slowly. Refused to look up. He reached for my bare foot and squeezed my toes. "And cold." I pulled my feet away. "Bad circulation." "You could always bite me, just to test.I hate you, too, by the way. Just so you know." "Oh, I do. I would suggest make-up sex, but ... " "Too bad you have scruples," I said. "Now you're just being cruel." "I like pushing your buttons." "You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first." Save me. "I think I should go and help Daniel." "With what?" "Anything." Noah stood. There was a mischievous smile on his lips as he left. — Michelle Hodkin

Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping — Dean Merrill

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. — Margot Fonteyn

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything. — Taylor Hawkins

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Because," she shrugged, "without the bad, we would never appreciate the good in life. — Micalea Smeltzer

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith. — Egon Friedell

Brain, maybe you should take a brief vacation. Take two aspirin and sit on the bench. Someone just smacked a line drive up the middle of the heart. — Allan Dare Pearce

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money. — Moses Malone

The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me. — Sara Levine

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. — Jean Rhys