Mohale Motaung Quotes & Sayings

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. — Daniel Dennett

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk

Age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry. The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution. There his wife died of — Victor Hugo

I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow, low-brow, anything) can understand life, people, the world. I don't care if ordinary people read or not. It's not for me to say how people should live. But people who have power over me? I want them to read because their limited, impoverished dreams may become my nightmares. — Yann Martel

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was. — Frederick Lenz

Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.'
Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal. — Cassandra Clare

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. — Mark Twain

Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. - Tris. — Veronica Roth

To write is to read one's own self — Max Frisch

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators. — Jonathan Haidt

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other. — Tae Yun Kim

First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it. — Michael Scott

Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while. — Nathanael West