Keypunch Card Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. — Steven Strogatz

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them. — Desmond Tutu

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. — G.K. Chesterton

Because it may be fine to die in the open, with one's body still young and healthy amidst the triumphant echoes of the bugles; but it is a sadder fate to die of wounds in a hospital ward after long sufferings, and it is more melancholy still to meet one's end in one's bed at home in the midst of fond laments, dim lights and medicine bottles. But nothing is more difficult than to die in some strange, indifferent spot, in the characterless bed of an inn, to die there old and worn and leave no one behind in the world. — Dino Buzzati

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting — Ambrose Bierce

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly. — Tegan Quin

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital. — Charles Lindbergh

He said to people: you're free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon as he'd been betrayed, they milled around a bit like barn-bred chickens who've seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they went back into the warm and shut the door ... — Terry Pratchett

How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that ... — Mike Jeffries

As the months and then the years passed, they developed a friendship in which the first fifteen years of his life remained unsaid and unspoken, as if they had never happened at all, as if he had been removed from the manufacturer's box when he reached college, and a switch at the base of his neck had been flipped, and he had shuddered to life. — Hanya Yanagihara