Fromkin An Introduction Quotes & Sayings

How do you stand the pain?" I ask. "It's just pain." He shrugs. His white cloak, smeared with dust, sticks to him as though he is wet beneath it. — Mark Lawrence

One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye. — Peter Landesman

I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right. — Beverly Cleary

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Ohlen stood and walked around the clearing, examining the ground as he went. "I see only one set of tracks ... " his voice trailed off as he knelt, inspecting the footprints more closely. "I've seen these before. This is the cru'gan."
Ahmahn came over and bent down beside his friend. "Him? Do you mean the scarred one that has Mirra?"
"Either that or a ferocious rabbit wearing cru'gan boots," Ohlen said sardonically. — Steven Scott Williamson

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there. — Andrew Mitchell

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. — Plato

Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part. — Steve Aylett

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again. — Karan Mahajan

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. — Francis Bacon