Mainspring Winder Quotes & Sayings

Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness. — John Fowles

There is no ideal freedom that will someday be given us all at once, as a pension comes at the end of one's life. There are liberties to be won painfully, one by one, and those we still have are stages - most certainly inadequate, but stages nevertheless - on the way to total liberation. If we agree to suppress them, we do not progress nonetheless. On the contrary, we retreat, we go backward, and someday we shall have to retrace our steps along that road, but that new effort will once more be made in the sweat and blood of men. No, — Albert Camus

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? — Dana Gould

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once. — George R R Martin

Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast. — Eban Goodstein

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility. — Harry West

People start aging from early, very early, on. Gradually it spreads over their entire body like a stain that cannot be wiped away. — Haruki Murakami

The room is so small, when I put the key in, I broke the window! — Henny Youngman

To celebrate man is to celebrate God — Sunday Adelaja

The flash of green light illuminated every corner of the room. Charity fell, with a resounding crash, onto the table below, which trembled and creaked. Several of the Death Eaters leapt back in their chairs. Draco fell out of his onto the floor. "Dinner, Nagini," said Voldemort softly, and the great snake swayed and slithered from his shoulders onto the polished wood. — J.K. Rowling

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! — Michel De Montaigne

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch. — Colin Powell