Koyukon Athabascan Quotes & Sayings

I was forever having internal conversations with myself; a result, no doubt, of living alone for so many years. — Anonymous

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. — K. Eric Drexler

... and who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Tina."
"Thank goodness!" I said so loudly she stepped back. "No silly-ass overdone names for you, m'girl."
"It's short for Christina Caresse Chavelle."
"Well, you did the best you could. — MaryJanice Davidson

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both. — Blaise Pascal

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [ ... ] Without cruelty there is no festival. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work. — Earl Nightingale

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. — Jerry Spinelli

I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy. — John Darnielle

I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. — James A. Baldwin