Illien Shoes Quotes & Sayings

But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace. — Janet Frame

But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the face, time relays some essential message, and time is the message. It takes things away. But its passage, its damages, are all we have. Without it, there's nothing. — Rachel Kushner

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful. — Si Robertson

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy. — Aristotle.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load. — Anatoly Chubais

She is alone with an unattended desk light whose electricity is an expenditure waiting to be itemized and eliminated in the next budget of Lift magazine, Covering the Elevator Industry for Thirty Years. — Colson Whitehead

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive ... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody. — Rajneesh