Hookesches Quotes & Sayings

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control. — Gina Greenlee

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes. — Roy Harper

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman — Gail Godwin

Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort. — Harry Belafonte

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do? — Matt Corby

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. — Swami Vivekananda

What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter. — Jack Vance

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day. — Virginia Clinton Kelley

Land of lost gods and godlike men. — Lord Byron

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you. — Eleanor Smeal