Mona Vanderwall Quotes & Sayings

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations. — Stanley Unwin

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths — Ben Oliveira

People talk about the Creator -
But surely he didn't create man only
to destroy him later! Because we are bad? And
who's to blame for that? Or because we are beautiful?
I can't make any sense of it. — Omar Khayyam

The best education for the best is the best education for all. — Robert M. Hutchins

Some memories have the ability to heal, the ability to light up the dark, because the beauty of the memory is so bright, you're still able to bask in it.But the memories of us are killing me slowly. They remind me that for one moment, I had everything, while reminding me it's gone. It's the realization that we're done that's torturing me. The realization that I can see him but can't touch him, that he exists but he's not mine, is agonizing. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on. — Sam Altman

But in my defense - yes, I'm defending myself against myself - fear is not rational. It doesn't give you a choice. It just is. So, yeah, I'm afraid. — Samantha Towle

In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength. — Ivo Andric

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. — James Wolcott

Now I realize, of course, that many readers will acknowledge that we do in fact have these reactions, but would nevertheless write them off as mere reactions. "Our tendency to find something personally disgusting," they will sniff, "doesn't show that there is anything objectively wrong with it." This is the sort of stupidity-masquerading-as-insight that absolutely pervades modern intellectual life, and it has the same source as so many other contemporary intellectual pathologies: the abandonment of the classical realism of the great Greek and Scholastic philosophers, and especially of Aristotle's doctrine of the four causes. — Edward Feser

We'll do what life always does defy expectations. — Robert Charles Wilson

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling. — David Walton

Sookan, don't look so sad and dark. I will never stop thinking of you. Nothing will end; nothing ever does. Everything good that touches our lives becomes part of us forever. You know that. — Sook Nyul Choi