Lancinant Quotes & Sayings

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year. — Henry Beston

Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all. — Philip Pullman

Hard work and perseverance trumps talent most of the time. Talent plus hard work? Virtually unstoppable. — T.C. Harrelson

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing — Konrad Lorenz