Metafilter Weird Quotes & Sayings

We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation. — Dashama Konah Gordon

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace

Dies iral, dies illa
Solvet Saeclum in Favilla
Teste David cum Silylla
That Day of Wrath, that day of burning
Seer and Sibly speak concerning
All the world to ashes turning — George Smith

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third ... when you know you're going to lose! — Savielly Tartakower

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. — Andrei Tarkovsky

A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves. — Neal Stephenson

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now? — Tony Robbins

The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold — Chris Hedges

15:22 In Adam all died; in Christ all are made alive. — Francois Du Toit