Nairne South Quotes & Sayings

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods of large stars, which routinely boil off the energy of ten thousand suns. These are the destinations they may seek. — Seth Shostak

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. — Wendell Willkie

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum

My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman. — Christina Baker Kline

Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac — Robert Rankin

Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer."
Bran to Eamonn — Juliet Marillier

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. — Muriel Spark

How mad at me would you be if I hit him really hard? Just once. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor

For once, I'll be proud to be in the shadows. — Lydia Kang

We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization. — Charles Lindbergh

A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping. — Zoe Helene

There was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words. — Wally Lamb

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. — Hope Solo

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. — Ice-T

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers. — Michael Franti