Lttered Quotes & Sayings

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. — Harold Macmillan

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure. — Lydia M. Child

F I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton

Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty. — Imre Lakatos

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay

The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light. — A.Z. Green

Only incorrigible bohemians find it boring or laughable when a man of talent outgrows the libertine chrysalis stage and begins to perceive and express the dignity of the intellect, adopting the courtly ways of a solitude replete with bitter suffering and inner battles though eventually gaining a position of power and honor among men. — Thomas Mann

She slid a book from the shelf and sat with it on the floor.
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter.
Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words lttered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be ant of this.
What good were the words?
The book thief stood and waled carefully to the library door. — Markus Zusak

Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness. — Dalai Lama

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. — Marty Rubin

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran