Miteq Tta0001 18 Quotes & Sayings

I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all. — Paul Valery

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick. — Mark Twain

You never know how much you'll like something until you try it out. — Brandon Sanderson

Thomas Yip saw that the 1855 Classification was perfect for the Chinese market because it satisfied a deep cultural itch: the need to save and display "face," particularly the forms of face known as gei mianzi and liu mianzi. Gei mianzi was the Chinese belief that you gave face or honored someone by showing him or her respect. The most frequent example was offering a gift appropriate to a person's status. Liu mianzi was the belief that you gained face by avoiding mistakes. Wise action reinforced your honor and reputation. — Suzanne Mustacich

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. — Victor Hugo

Babe, when we have sex, we create magic. We leave earth. We travel the fucking universe. Sex with you goes on and never ends. It transcends. I'm fucking addicted to it. Addicted to you. I didn't want to share you. — S. Ann Cole

The Shawnees, Miamis and Delawares follow the custom of placing their children into the male gens by giving them a gentile name belonging to the father's gens, so that they may be entitled to inherit. "Innate casuistry of man, to change the objects by changing their names, and to find loopholes for breaking tradition inside of tradition where a direct interest was a sufficient motive." (Marx.) — Friedrich Engels

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth ... ! — Umberto Eco

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults. — Michelle Rhee

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind. — Henry Grady Weaver

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. — Anne Enright

Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul! — Avijeet Das

Marriage is lonelier than solitude. — Adrienne Rich