Lxxxiv Roman Quotes & Sayings

All power is a test. — Brent Weeks

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty. — U.G. Krishnamurti

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? — Charles Stross

Every scenario that crossed her mind did not end well. And by not ending well, she meant ending up lip-locked against a wall. — Staci Hart

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting. — Hubert Van Zeller

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [ ... ] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. — David Attenborough

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex forms, the sensual and erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life. — Sean William Scott

I didn't switch sides. I stopped playing. — James S.A. Corey

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Strange what love taught you about your
faults. — Maggie Stiefvater

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me. — Henry Cejudo