Hakoba Quotes & Sayings

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend. — William James

Samantha as I finished up telling the random freshman about my time with Keanne. "Well, it was the end of August, and it — Brooke Jaxsen

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you — Cecily Von Ziegesar

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. — Isaac Asimov

The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks — J. Lynn

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. — George McGovern

What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And meant I inherited his weak lungs? Not relevant to us? her mother says. And then the break-up of the Balkans, and the start of the territorial trouble in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the civil unrest in Ireland, and the shifts of power in Russia, and the power shifts in the Ottoman empire, and the bankruptcy, economic catastrophe and social unrest in Germany, all of which played a huge part in the rise of Fascism and in the bringing about of another war in which, as it happens, your own grandmother and grandfather
who happened to be my mother and father
both fought when they were just two or three years older than you? Not relevant? To us? — Ali Smith

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived. — Touaxia Vang

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it. — John Darnielle

Release Others' Expectations. If you focus on what others expect of you, you'll continue to act on and attract more of what they desire for you. But when you can shift your inner thoughts to what you intend to create and attract into your life, you will no longer have to give mental energy to what others want for you ... — Wayne W. Dyer

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius} — Josiah Willard Gibbs

The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24 — Robert R. Mitchell

Tom could not understand why there wasn't any water. The entire building was webbed with thick pipes, which were supposed to spray water during a fire. The plane must have sliced through dozens of those pipes. — Michael Landsberg

Being with you is never Easy. It's long nights and Cryptic answers, and Constant challenges. — Nazarea Andrews