Mid Budget Gaming Quotes & Sayings

But as your horizons contract - when you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain - your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you. — Atul Gawande

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. — Steve Toltz

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void? — Lisa See

So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean? Cradle and infancy, school and playground, the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries, and many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The American Scholar — Haven Kimmel

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form. — Brian Froud

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular. — Daphne Oz

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party. — Rush Limbaugh

In front of the inn was a beautiful mountain stream where one could catch lots of firm, colorful fish. Noisy birds were always skimming over the surface of the stream, their calls piercing, and it wasn't unusual to spot wild boar or monkeys roaming around nearby. The mountains were a treasure trove of edible wild plants. In this isolated environment, young Haida was able to indulge himself in reading and contemplation. He no longer cared what was happening in the real world. — Haruki Murakami

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. — George W. Bush

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! — Chesty Puller

Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming? — Ally Carter

HA, HA, HA! Next you'll be finding pleasure in a toothache!" you will exclaim, laughing. "And why not? There is also pleasure in a toothache," I will answer. I had a toothache for a whole month; I know there is. Here, of course, one does not remain silently angry, one moans; but these are not straightforward moans, they are crafty moans, and the craftiness is the whole point. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That afternoon I began expanding my notes. — Stephen King

[ ... ] And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary mortal in a dark and neverending night. There is no God. Sure as fate - there is no God. There is only chaos - dismal, painful, cruel, agonizing, blind, endless chaos. — Irving Stone