Ilmarinta Quotes & Sayings

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism. — Mignon McLaughlin

Still - " Tigerishka temporized - "are things I will tell." Then, at court-stenographer speed, and a little singsong, as if it were very boring to her: "I come superior galactic culture. Read minds, throw thoughts, sail hyperspace, live forever if want, blow up suns - all that sort stuff. Look like animal - resume ancestral shapes. Make brains small but really huge - (psychophysiosubmicrominiaturization! We stay superior.) You not believe? So listen. Plants eat inorganic: they superior! Animals eat plants: they superior. Cats eat fresh meat: we most superior! Monkeys try eat everything: a mess!" Then without pause: "Wanderer sail hyperspace. Yes, star photos, I know. Need fuel - much matter for converters. Your moon good woodpile. Smash, pulverize, dredge. We fuel up, then go. No need you monkeys get hot and bothered. — Fritz Leiber

I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are
some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It
is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right
across the water's surface. — Juliet Marillier

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world. — Chuck Connors

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. — David Seabury

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form. — Ilona Andrews

Affliction comes to us all ... not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold. — Henry Ward Beecher

No house is ugly with a good view! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question. — Alice Hoffman

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. — Moby