Invingeti Quotes & Sayings

Common sense is the genius of humanity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand. — Gudjon Bergmann

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it. — Jack Kirby

I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock. — Brandon Sanderson

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it - in other men's words. — Mary McCarthy

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen. — Carolyn Baker

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome. — Julian Baggini

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder. — Arundhati Roy

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ... — Ernest Hemingway,

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. — Johan Huizinga

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann

But I am even more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.
I am humanity. — Rick Yancey

A town without a book shop was a town without a heart — Veronica Henry