Mechanicum Thallax Quotes & Sayings

If the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

How 'bout a Buick?'

I wasn't sure but it was almost like I tasted vomit in the back of my throat. — Kristen Ashley

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care — Gordon Brown

Focus on what's next, not what came before. — Sarah Fine

This is in the natural order of things
the time of life we've now entered. The afternoon, as Jung called it. Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life. Are we unprepared simply because preparation is not possible? ... We learn
if we are lucky we learn
as we go.
... we are in the center of the stream. Much has already happened, and has formed the shape of our lives as surely as water shapes rock. Much lies ahead of us. We can't see what's coming. We can't know it. All we have is our hope that all will be well, and our knowledge that it won't always be so. We live in the space between this hope and this knowledge.
...
Life keeps coming at us. Fleeing it is pointless, as is fighting. What I have begun to learn is that there is value in simply standing there
this too
whether the sun is shining, or the wind whipping all around. [pp.239-240] — Dani Shapiro

From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase, the molding of a stone arch over a gateway, the tangled precision of the blades in a tussock of dried grass. — W.G. Sebald

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more. — Alan Jackson

And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. And she called him Moses, for she — Anonymous

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier. — Mark Lanegan

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. — Gautama Buddha

Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life. — Lisa Genova

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. — Harvey MacKay

Change, the uninvited guest that destroys what once was. — Kirby Crow