Flutteredeyes Quotes & Sayings

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents
the
accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts
i.e. of materialism and astronomy
are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. — C.S. Lewis

Zane lifted one hand to cup Ty's face. "Do you have any idea how brave you are?" he asked, the sounds ragged and perhaps even a little choked. "Tell — Madeleine Urban

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage. — Michael Leunig

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden. — Ernest Holmes

I guess the Greeks weren't big fans of online shopping, because they had lots of wars with the Amazons. — Rick Riordan

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it — James Truslow Adams

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me. — Tom Berenger

To teach, learn. To learn, teach. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So he likes being mean to you. And you like that he likes bean mean to you.
And I like being mean to him too. — Kristin Walker

The weatherman/woman definitely has SuperPowers. — Margaret Aranda

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. — George Orwell

Watch carefully. In forty formidable bosoms we are about to create a climacteric of emotion. In one short speech - or maybe two - I propose to steer your women through excitement, superiority, contempt and anger: we shall have a little drama; just, awful and poetic, spread with uncials and full, as the poet said, of fruit and seriosity. Will they thank me, I wonder? — Dorothy Dunnett

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them. — Vincent De Paul

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most. — Emma Donoghue

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze. — Hank Stuever