Muraoka Of The Konoe Quotes & Sayings

Anything that can be proven cannot last. — Jonah Blank

And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again. — Flannery O'Connor

A reader of The Unspeakables recently contacted me. She said she had become so engrossed with the paperback she'd taken it to the top of a Munro whilst climbing on the Isle of Mull. I'm delighted to have three-dimensional circulation as well. — Peter F. Jemison

Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth. — M. King Hubbert

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things. — Martin Freeman

If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right, but they believe different things
they belong to different religions, different faiths, there is nothing they can do to settle their disagreement short of shooting each other, which is what they very often actually do. — Richard Dawkins

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. — Stephen Hawking

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums. — Jerome Charyn

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan. — Barbara Lee

the average branch of WH Smith today does not seem progressive or cutting edge, but back in the 1980s they were a major and dynamic force on the High Street. — Andrew Hewson