Nkda Quotes & Sayings

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. — Michael Rostovtzeff

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence. — Olaf Stapledon

Evidence is the debris of a careless mind. — Brian Farrey

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me. — Armand Assante

She live in a mindset that I could never move to — Drake

That image of Joan of Arc burning up in a fire burned inside me like a new religion. Her face skyward. Her faith muscled up like a holy war. And always the voice of a father in her head. Like me. Jesus. What is a thin man pinned to wood next to the image of a burning woman warrior ablaze? I took the image of a burning woman into my heart and left belief to the house of father forever. — Lidia Yuknavitch

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future. — Robin Hobb

Christmas; it makes us feel - to be finally arrived home. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down. — Harry Markowitz

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. — Guy De Maupassant

I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest ... it was hard to say what exactly. — Richelle Mead

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. — Victor Hugo

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight. — Ina May Gaskin

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise. — Rachel Sklar