Habitu S Quotes & Sayings

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. — Rick Riordan

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment. — Lauryn Hill

Generally speaking, words like 'agent of,' 'Democracy,' 'Freedom,' etc. meant something quite different in Party usage from what they meant in general usage; and as, furthermore, even their Party meaning changed with each shift of the line, our polemical methods became rather like the croquet game of the Queen of Hearts, in which the hoops moved about the field and the balls were live hedgehogs. With this difference, that when a player missed his turn and the Queen shouted 'Off with his head,' the order was executed in earnest. To survive, we all had to become virtuosos of Wonderland croquet. — Arthur Koestler

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. — Duke Ellington

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. — Kofi Annan

Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never know from what quarter the sudden blow of chance will come. Catastrophe and good fortune come upon us and then depart, like unexpected visitors. They have their own laws, their own orbits, their own gravitational force, all independent of man. — Victor Hugo

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't ... you're blind! — Jeff Healey

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier. — Kirstie Alley

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster. — Robin Hobb

Any conception of socialism defined in national terms, within so extreme and predatory an oppressor nation as the US, is a view that leads in practice to a fight for particular privileged interest and is a very dangerous ideology. Active combat against empire is the only foundation for socialist revolution in the oppressor nation. — Weather Underground

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. — Irvine Welsh

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.' — Megan Hilty

The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you. — Simphiwe Dana

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
[Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.] — Plautus

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. — Nate Silver