Importance Of Setting In Literature Quotes & Sayings

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There — Naomi Novik

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi

Power was the ability to reward and punish. Henry could reward with money and drugs. He could punish by withholding money and drugs. A nice combination. Ultimately, however, Henry wielded the power of punishment held only by a self-selected few. He was willing to murder. China knew that if a man could kill someone, everyone knew that he could kill anyone. The only way to stand up to that kind of power was to be willing to die. — Karl Marlantes

It's a small world," I observed. "When you put it in a cemetery, it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect. — Elizabeth Bowen

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting. — Amy Heckerling

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed. — Kelly Easton

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields. — Helen Keller

Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love. — Thomas Campion

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers. — Dalai Lama

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot. — Peter Blair Henry

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. — John Locke