Nemroud Quotes & Sayings

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe. — Shelby Foote

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion
and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder ... — Diana Gabaldon

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors. — Isaac Asimov

Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas. — P.D. Ouspensky

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don't matter anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle — Ayn Rand

I'm so sleepy."
"My beautiful girl, dawn nears. And all good vampires are to bed."
She eased up, arching a brow at him. "Then you'll stay awake. — Kresley Cole

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.
One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.
("Paper Pills") — Sherwood Anderson

I'm learning all the time."
"Well, you're a scholar. — Rachel Caine

Heaven gives us hope - hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we're facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven. — Billy Graham