Laconisms Quotes & Sayings

Trees live in symbiosis with hyphae (fungus/mold roots). A tea spoon of dirt contains kilometers of these roots. One species can spread throughout entire forests over centuries. They exchange nutrients with trees, along with information about insects, drought and other dangers. It's like a 'wood wide web'. — Peter Wohlleben

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom. — Michael R. Burch

We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love? — Ashton Applewhite

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. — Roberto Benigni

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction. — Robert G. Thompson

I'm done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now. — Maria Sharapova

Every law is an infraction of liberty. — Jeremy Bentham

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. — Philip K. Dick

What are you two up to today?"
"Oh, I just figured I'd show Ty some more of Texas. Head down to San Antonio and visit the Bureau office there," Zane said. He shot a sideways look at Ty. "Maybe spend the night in Beaumont."
Ty smacked his forehead and turned his head away.
"Not much in Beaumont to see," Harrison said with a frown.
Zane grinned. "Even so, we're going to try to get it in." Ty had his hand over his mouth, his head down. He was either going to throw up or he was laughing. Harrison felt he'd missed a joke, but he thought maybe he didn't want to know. — Abigail Roux

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place. — William Gibson

Man was not made for himself alone — Plato

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain ... are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction. — Luther Burbank