Matildia Quotes & Sayings

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. — Emile M. Cioran

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes. — Jon Taffer

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long ... — Roald Dahl

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant. — Edith Hamilton

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. — Jamie Foxx

The ground for preferring superintelligence to come before other potentially dangerous technologies, such as nanotechnology, is that superintelligence would reduce the existential risks from nanotechnology but not vice versa.4 Hence, if we create superintelligence first, we will face only those existential risks that are associated with superintelligence; whereas if we create nanotechnology first, we will face the risks of nanotechnology and then, additionally, the risks of superintelligence. — Nick Bostrom

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community. — Rod Blagojevich

Your heart has all the feelings, all the perception, and all the love
that the universe ever had. — Debasish Mridha

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. — D.H. Lawrence

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me. — Greg Fitzsimmons

But he'd no sooner stepped into a bathroom and unzipped than a creak had him glancing up. Above him, the ceiling panel lifted and two curious brown eyes peered down at him. Indignation left him stunned, just for a second. Then the panel groaned warningly, and even he knew what that meant. Before he could react, a shrieking, laughing female landed on him, hitting him square in the chest. Instinctively, he caught her, then tightened his tenuous hold. "What the - " "Oh, my!" the wriggling mass of woman exclaimed, pushing hair from her face. She blinked up at him. "Oh, my. — Jill Shalvis