Historyonly Quotes & Sayings

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans. — Mikko Hypponen

Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter. — Garrison Keillor

When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.
And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe. — Gary D. Schmidt

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them. — Amanda Hocking

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not. — George W. Casey Jr.

Death is nothing but absence of physical presence — Mayank Sharma

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds ... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions. — Stefan Zweig

Most games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

People's eyes are blobs of jelly. That's what the medic told me one I'd lost my right eye. But her eyes? Her eyes were limitless, like the night sky. Her gaze dissolved into space, as though all human experience could be found in her glassy eyes. I — Fran Seen

The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun. — Atul Gawande

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground. — Jim Butcher