Labysse Quotes & Sayings

But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night — Brian Jacques

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock — William James

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top. — David Gemmell

I watch the vein in his neck pulse. I watch him convert oxygen to carbon dioxide. I watch him existing and existing and existing. — Jandy Nelson

It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't. — Gary Pruitt

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it. — Scott Westerfeld

This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They can thus carryout an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations. — Maria Montessori

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. — A.R. Ammons

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. — Marvin Harris

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to
know what you want and go about getting it. — Anthony DeCurtis

Sarah and William's unhappiness, their quarrelling, had probably attracted the mongol child - yes, yes, of course she knew one shouldn't call them mongol. — Doris Lessing

I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love. — Catherynne M Valente

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. — Oswald Chambers