Laborat Quotes & Sayings

Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. — John Green

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. — David Cone

Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it. — Frances Hardinge

Ordinary society is, in this respect, very like the kind of music to be obtained from an orchestra composed of Russian horns. Each horn has only one note; and the music is produced by each note coming in just at the right moment. In the monotonous sound of a single horn, you have a precise illustration of the effect of most people's minds. How often there seems to be only one thought there! and no room for any other. It is easy to see why people are so bored; and also why they are sociable, why they like to go about in crowds - why mankind is so gregarious. It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui: folly is truly its own burden. Put a great many men together, and you may get some result - some music from your horns! A — Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. — Grace Paley

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible ... — Walter Stanley Mooneyham

What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light. — Ben Lerner

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight — Angela Elwell Hunt

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. — Albert Camus

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath. — Laozi

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. — Alva Myrdal