Hebdomadal Etymology Quotes & Sayings

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate. — Herman Melville

I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life! — Ellen Schreiber

Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is. — Caroline Myss

Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains — Stephen R. Donaldson

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own "real" world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. — Leonard S. Marcus

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas. — Bibhu Mohapatra

I was a master at keeping my feelings in. — Mark David Chapman

As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock. — Sarah Silverman

No, hoplite fighting was more individual and more spread out - a matter of spear fighting, not a gigantic, demented rugby scrum. — J.E. Lendon

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface. — Morris Gleitzman

I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous. — Zac Efron

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. — Mother Teresa

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. — N. R. Narayana Murthy