Jalian Valabag Quotes & Sayings

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? — Theodore Sturgeon

And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art. — David Bayles

He hadn't said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had only been, "You're wearing my socks. — Melody J. Bremen

Maybe this was the way it had always happened, with no fate ever involved; you simply fell in with the people around you, and no matter what else happened in history or the great world, for the individual it was always a matter of local acquaintances - the village, the platoon, the work unit, the monastery or madressa, the zawiyya or farm or apartment block, or ship, or neighborhood - these formed the true circumference of one's world, some twenty or so speaking parts, as if they were in a play together. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together. — Jim Robbins

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle. — Ariel Rechtshaid

If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture. — Dan Phillips

I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works". — Demetri Martin

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. — Gail Godwin

They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to worse. Stuffed her head full of ideas, and now she's a bit addled. — Helen Deutsch