Growstone Quotes & Sayings

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Without Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and deportation, Judaism as we know it, and therefore Christianity and Islam in their turn, could never have come to be. — Paul Kriwaczek

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time. — Joseph Straus

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border. — Margaret MacMillan

After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had been with Charles. It was also the trouble, he perceived, with nine-tenths or the people here tonight. They were specialists. They had not merely accepted their limitations, as Laurie was ready to accept his, loyal to his humanity if not to his sex, and bringing an extra humility to the hard study of human experience. They had identified themselves with their limitations; they were making a career of them. They had turned from all other reality, and curled up in them snugly, as in a womb. — Mary Renault

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. — Bruce Sterling

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising. — Andrew Hacker

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul. — Alphonsus Liguori

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors. — John Maynard Keynes