Mobydick Quotes & Sayings

Hope
Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us ... A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. — Barack Obama

You can't blame the nuclear missile for going off after all its buttons have been pushed. — Emma Chase

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me. — Thomas Pynchon

On an impulse, I reached for the telephone, and then paused with the receiver in my hand. I stared down at the phone for long seconds, rehearsing the words I would say in my mind. I felt a tremble in my fingers, and my breathing became short as if I had been running. — Jason Luke

I thank you; but I assure you you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more;' and she walked on, amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into; and not very well pleased with her brother for imagining her blind and ignorant, and in want of counsel. — Jane Austen

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. — Sandra Bullock

I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt — Eilian J. Richmond

As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers. — Marilyn Ferguson

Don't give up on your daydream! That little voice inside is telling you how to live your life with intent & purpose. — Dawn Gluskin