Lud In The Mist Quotes & Sayings

And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us. — Nhat Hanh

It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. — Joan Robinson

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones. — Hope Mirrlees

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action. — Hope Mirrlees

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns. — Bear Bryant

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane- — Robyn Schneider

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy. — Hope Mirrlees

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind — Isaac Asimov

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters! — Hope Mirrlees

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense. — Hope Mirrlees

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative. — Hope Mirrlees

You just don't expect to meet dead people. — Chuck Palahniuk

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost. — Hope Mirrlees

I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear. — Donald Miller

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a successful trader. — David Ryan

So fine a medicine is the will to action. — Hope Mirrlees

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! — Alan Alda

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold

I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things
like George Macdonald's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin. (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.)
I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I love William Morris' early fantasy novels.
Oh, and "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees (Neil Gaiman is a big fan of that one too), and I could go on and on but I won't! — Terri Windling

The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out. — Dana Gould