Moting Quotes & Sayings

And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was, after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world. — Hermann Hesse

It was such a radiant smile, without a trace of shadow, that I couldn't help smiling myself. — Haruki Murakami

The coward is an object to be pitied. — Swami Vivekananda

According to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history. — Barbara Kingsolver

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena — William Shakespeare

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. — William Randolph Hearst

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series. — James Gunn

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. — Milton Friedman

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. — Hugh MacDiarmid

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it — Thea Harris

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up. — Sheri L. Dew

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. — Frederick Soddy

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money. — Paul Gibbons