Halmia Quotes & Sayings

For never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive. — William Butler Yeats

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky. — Tom Wujec

Nothing, nothing,
the whole long day, nothing. — Franz Kafka

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. — John P. Kotter

Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know ... take care of yourself. — Ginuwine

I think you're asking too much. You know what I have? Toward this Pris android?"
"Empathy," he said.
"Something like that. Identification; there goes I. My god; maybe that's what'll happen. In the confusion you'll retire me, not her. And she can go back to Seattle and live my life. I never felt this way before. We are machines, stamped out like bottle caps. It's an illusion that I - I personally - really exist; I'm just representative of a type."
He could not help being amused; Rachael had become so mawkishly morose. "Ants don't feel like that," he said, "and they're physically identical."
"Ants. They don't feel period."
"Identical human twins. They don't - "
"But they identify with each other; I understand they have an empathic, special bond. — Philip K. Dick

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. — John F. Kennedy

He smirked and sat up "Simmer down, Jelly Bean. — Stacey O'Neale

Often, I can read between the lines, I just choose not to — M.P. Sharma

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. — Beth Moore

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is. — Leon Redbone

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. — Sissela Bok

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away. — John Chamberlain

greatest hope. Last night it had been my father who'd — Alice Sebold

As you entered the room the thing drew your eyes: you turned sharply as to a sound, expecting movement. But it was marble, it could not move. And when you tore your eyes away and turned your back on it at last, you got again untarnished and high and clean that sense of swiftness, of space encompassed; but on looking again it was as before: motionless and passionately eternal - the virginal breastless torso of a girl, headless, armless, legless, in marble temporarily caught and hushed yet passionate still for escape, passionate and simple and eternal in the equivocal derisive darkness of the world. Nothing to trouble your youth or lack of it: rather something to trouble the very fibrous integrity of your being. — William Faulkner