Kaas Plateau Quotes & Sayings

They go to work, attend a meeting
Write an equation, have a beer,
Hail colleagues with a cheerful greeting,
Are conscientious, sane and sincere,
Rational, able and fastidious.
Through hardened casing no invidious
Tapeworm of doubt, no guilt, no qualm,
Pierces to Sabotage their claim.
When something's technically attractive,
You follow the conception through,
That's all. What if you leave a slew
Of living dead, of radioactive
"Collateral damage" in its wake?
It's just a job, for heaven's sake. — Vikram Seth

The edge of a precipice ... That is the place where man sits throughout his life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman

All writing is filth — Antonin Artaud

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers

Many gloat over their own troubles. — Mason Cooley

From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada. — Jean Charest

You will always reap greater rewards by exercising at the more intense side of the spectrum. — James Driver

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace? — Noam Chomsky

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann

To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being. — S.I. Hayakawa

Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating. — Peter Hoeg

Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that. — Janette Rallison

You were right," she said. "You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever. — Rachel Caine

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. — Henry Vaughan