Mourners End Part Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson

If we're stuck on one world, we're limited to a single case; we don't know what else is possible. Then - like an art fancier familiar only with Fayoum tomb paintings, a dentist who knows only molars, a philosopher trained merely in NeoPlatonism, a linguist who has studied only Chinese, or a physicist whose knowledge of gravity is restricted to falling bodies on Earth - our perspective is foreshortened, our insights narrow, our predictive abilities circumscribed. By contrast, when we explore other worlds, what once seemed the only way a planet could be turns out to be somewhere in the middle range of a vast spectrum of possibilities. When we look at those other worlds, we begin to understand what happens when we have too much of one thing or too little of another. We learn how a planet can go wrong. — Carl Sagan

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity. — Frantz Fanon

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45. — Johnny Rivers

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that. — Joseph Kosinski

Where there's dope, there's hope! — Philip K. Dick

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. — Laura Bush

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus. — Susan Hale

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. — Marion Dane Bauer

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say. — Gwyneth Paltrow

True affluence is to not need anything. — Gary Snyder

Love makes people do cruel things — Kate Morton

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi

No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States. In fact, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has charged that U.S. disenfranchisement policies are discriminatory and violate international law. — Michelle Alexander

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele