Gjysme Molle Quotes & Sayings

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory. — Walter Savage Landor

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff. — Carl Sagan

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons. — Barry N. Malzberg

True weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better. — Jonathan Edwards

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters
and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. — Thomas Hood

You want not to give a damn, to exist without responsibility, without faith or friends or warmth. — Truman Capote