Misfits Season 4 Quotes & Sayings

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction. — Edith Wharton

The sea was a tempestuous woman, roughly angry one day, silkily soothing another. No other natural phenomenon reflected their moods as deeply as the sea. It was beauty. It was wrath. It was everything. — Tricia O'Malley

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century. — Also Leopold

God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness. — Dan Simmons

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination. — Subhash Kak

In fact, if anybody on the Somme battlefield is overdue to be treated with a little pathos it is not the attackers, with their threefold artillery superiority, total control of the air and copious reserves of of manpower, but rather the German defenders opposite. — Alexander Watson

Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns. — Sharon Salzberg

He'll never compose whole odes to my beauty and grace. He'll never show up with a boom box to reenact Say Anything outside my window. He'll never drive over at three a.m. because I'm sick and can't sleep and just want to feel his arms around me. — Abby McDonald

The world doesn't owe anyone a living - including veterans. — Frank D. Gilroy

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet. — Frank Zappa

Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age? — Liane Moriarty

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do. — Erwin Rommel

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. — William Shatner