Martinius Quotes & Sayings

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation. — Jonathan Aitken

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

He had a sense - honed by experience - that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67] — Guy Gavriel Kay

A really big question is why the universe is fit for life; it looks like it has been 'fixed up'. — Paul Davies

She did feel it. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation — Sohrab Vossoughi

Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago. — Scott Westerfeld

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man". — Russell Beland