Giavotella News Quotes & Sayings

These books are my friends, my companions. — Christopher Paolini

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp.
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He wasn't quite sure he was ready to publish. There was something not quite right, something that needed a little refining. As he had been working ten years on the theory, it wouldn't hurt to take a little longer, to get it polished perfectly smooth. The little something not quite right kept looking wronger. A little flaw in the reasoning. A big flaw. A crack right through the foundations...The night before he left Anarres he had burned every paper he had on the General Theory. He had come to Urras with nothing. For half a year he had, in their terms, been bluffing them.

Or had he been bluffing himself? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Do the standards of God's moral law vary from time to time or from place to place? Does the New Testament abrogate the moral precepts of the Old Testament and establish new principles for regulating man's conduct? The answer to both of these questions is no. God's moral law remains constant from creation to consummation (and forever after), and governs all men, even to the uttermost parts of the earth. How could it be otherwise? — William O. Einwechter

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through. — Robert M. Hayes

It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes. — Leon Battista Alberti

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. — Dora Russell

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex. — Anne Frank

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done. — Veronica Roth

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was. — Deb Caletti

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure. — Michael Foot

People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We're all spiraling out of control. — Beth Revis

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press — Mark Twain

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot ... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple