Milletian Quotes & Sayings

In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself. — Martin Heidegger

Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls. — Richard Flanagan

The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across. — John Collison

You can feel it deep in your bones because it's older than your senses: the end of winter, the Earth sliding toward Spring. — Rick Yancey

I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention. — Paula Creamer

To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork. — J.B.S. Haldane

I excused myself to the woman I was with and made my way over to these men. I stopped to ask my friend Buller to watch my back. The thing is, people like this can't be talked to, and so I wasn't going to mess around with this crazed windmill and his sidekick, Don Quixote.
I hit the mouthy crazed windmill with a thumping right, a left, right, smack on the chin; he fell apart and was out for the count before he hit the deck.
I turned to Don Quixote and off he shot like the Disney cartoon character of Speedy Gonzales. — Stephen Richards

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. — Madame De Stael

And then, well ... He might have slept for a bit. He rather hoped he was sleeping, because he was quite certain he'd seen a six-foot rabbit hopping through his bedchamber, and if that wasn't a dream, they were all in very big trouble.
Although really, it wasn't the rabbit that was so dangerous as much as the giant carrot he was swinging about like a mace.
That carrot would feed an entire village. — Julia Quinn

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare

Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. — Laura Hillenbrand

VAN HOUTEN!" I shouted. "Are you okay? Was that a cough?" "Kaitlyn, I love you. You are a genius. I have to go. — John Green