Flotterstone Quotes & Sayings

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America. — Stephen Hawking

Only a wise man can dicern time — Sunday Adelaja

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ever seen that bumper sticker "He who dies with the most toys wins"? Millions of people act as if it were true. The more accurate saying is "He who dies with the most toys still dies - and never takes his toys with him." When we die after devoting our lives to acquiring things, we don't win - we lose. We move into eternity, but our toys stay behind, filling junkyards. The bumper sticker couldn't be more wrong. — Randy Alcorn

Loafing failures - I saw the labor unions who won every claim against me, by reason of my ability to make their livelihood possible - I saw that any man's desire for money he could not earn was regarded as a righteous wish, but if he earned it, it was damned as greed - I saw the politicians who winked at me, telling me not to worry, because I could just work a little harder and outsmart them all. — Ayn Rand

the awfulness of love and violets — Vladimir Nabokov

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt

O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all; but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening. HERMANN HESSE Narcissus and Goldmund — Peter Matthiessen

Jesus didn't die an extravagant death so that we could live mediocre and comfortable lives. — Jarrid Wilson

If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr. — Marissa Meyer