Faunas Companion Quotes & Sayings

What we had might not be forever, but it was now, and it was everything I needed. — Julia Ember

("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be), — Robert A. Heinlein

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works. — Seth Godin

We must endure, Alyosha. That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ugliness and dreariness of life, of the suffering of the people - of everything against which I protested so vehemently. I was not made for endurance, and if occasionally I exhibited this virtue of cattle, wood, and stone, I did so only to test myself, to try my strength and my stability. Sometimes young people, in the foolishness of immaturity, or in envy of the strength of their elders, strive, even successfully, to lift weights that overtax their bones and muscles; in their vanity they attempt to cross themselves with two-pood weights, like mature athletes. I too did this, in the literal and figurative sense, physically and spiritually, and only good fortune kept me from injuring myself fatally or crippling myself for life.
For nothing cripples a person so dreadfully as endurance, as a humble submission to the forces of circumstance. — Maxim Gorky

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. — James Thurber

A mystery is solved with a story. — Lemony Snicket

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital. — William Howard Taft

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. — Omari Hardwick

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so. — Eric Dinerstein

In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay. — Marty Rubin