Interneesing Quotes & Sayings

Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future. — Dr. An Wang

Xas reappeared and showed every sign of winding himself around Sobran permanently, like -Sobran complained - some parasitic vine. — Elizabeth Knox

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. — A. N. Wilson

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit. — Emily Robison

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. — Sonia Sotomayor

But you're human, aren't you? (Kat)
I'm human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don't want to be around myself then. (Kish) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body. — Kristen Hannah

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. — Hermann Hesse

Man, a gigantic child, must play with Babylon and Nineveh, with Isis and with Ashtaroth. By all means let him dream of the Bondage of Egypt, so long as he is free from it. By all means let him take up the Burden of Tyre, so long as he can take it lightly. But the old gods must be his dolls, not his idols. His central sanctities, his true possessions, should be Christian and simple. And just as a child would cherish most a wooden horse or a sword that is a mere cross of wood, so man, the great child, must cherish most the old plain things of poetry and piety; that horse of wood that was the epic end of Ilium, or that cross of wood that redeemed and conquered the world. — G.K. Chesterton

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are. — Jase Robertson

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. — Thomas Otway

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits. — Alex Steffen

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. — Jane Austen

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer