Longrange Quotes & Sayings

That was six years ago. We can't keep turning our backs on chances to live or...at least stop denying ourselves pleasure. — Ally Fleming

Also, I was living in the middle of my parents' marriage. No one ever says this about families, and maybe people who aren't only children don't even notice it, but half the time I feel like I'm this extra person watching them have a marriage. They fight, they kiss, they discuss the inlaws, they do projects, they take down the Christmas tree and reminisce about things I don't remember, they fight some more-and it's all this personal stuff that I really have no business witnessing, except I have nowhere else to go because I live here. I'm just trying to eat my dinner and instead I'm in the middle of this grown-up relationship that is complicated and disgustingly mushy and sometimes angry. — E. Lockhart

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. — Billie Jean King

Did she not get it? He'd done everything but hit her on the head and drag her into a cave. — Lilith Saintcrow

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason ... She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. — Steven Morrissey

The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything. — Frank Macfarlane Burnet

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. — Jorge Luis Borges

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research. — Kenneth G. Wilson

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. — Roger Zelazny

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints ... — Erica Jong

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. — Norbert Wiener

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. — George R R Martin

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins ... — St. Maximos The Confessor

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. — Michael Gove