Motines Que Quotes & Sayings

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger. — Alfred North Whitehead

You're gonna be like Aquaman?" she asked. "Get the fish to fight for you?"
"Thanks," Percy said. "I haven't heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime. — Rick Riordan

I had a chair at every hearth,
When no one turned to see,
With 'Look at that old fellow there,
'And who may he be? — William Butler Yeats

Nothing in our everyday experience gives us any reason for supposing that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen; and yet when we subject water to to certain rather drastic treatments, the nature of its constituent elements becomes manifest. Similarly, nothing in our everyday experience gives us much reason for supposing that the mind of the average sensual man has, as one of its constituents, something resembling, or identical with, the Reality substantial to the manifold world; and yet, when that mind is subjected to certain rather drastic treatments, the divine element, of which it is in part at least composed, becomes manifest, not only to the mind itself, but also, by its reflection in external behaviour, to other minds. — Aldous Huxley

I just dont know how ... to think less. If you know how, then teach me ... — Aishah Madadiy

You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us. — Shailene Woodley

I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room] — Anthony McGowan

You're much too beautiful for tears. — Laura Miller

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations. — Evan Esar

Morning people use up their perky too early and end up being just plain grumpy. — P.C. Cast

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused. — Ha-Joon Chang