Miljard En Quotes & Sayings

After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land. — J.G. Ballard

They held it their duty to live but for their country. — William Godwin

Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

In the end, it doesn't matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn't matter a damn bit. We're no avatars, no sons of god or man. We're only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone. Goddamn it hurts. — Dan Simmons

When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that. — Michelle Fairley

His wise parent disapproved of this uncatly conduct; it indicated a certain lack of character, and no good would come of it. By her own example she tried to guide him. When dinner was served she gave the plate a haughty sniff and walked away, no matter how tempting the dish. That was the way it was done by any self-respecting feline. In a minute or two she returned and condescended to dine, but never with open enthusiasm. — Lilian Jackson Braun

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.. — Kurt Cobain

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever — Dave Regis

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God? — John Wesley

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith — John Calvin

I'm working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.' 'Hasn't someone already written that one? — Jo Nesbo

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution ... Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal. — John Kenneth Galbraith

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure. — Margot Robbie

With that first touch I. Was. DONE. Ring the bell, south the alarm, turn off the lights and lock the doors.
DONE. — Ella Fox

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions. — Michael Dell