Notbymight Quotes & Sayings

I had thought to seize the image in my head and preserve it in wax, so that I might always be able to look upon it as one of those rare moments in which one senses the plates of the world shift beneath one and life is forever altered: on one side of the buckling earth is the past, and on the other side the present, and there is no soldering the two together ever again. — Hanya Yanagihara

What happens if you make it back from the Slat? If the auction goes as planned and we manage this feat?"
"Then you get your ship and your future."
"And you?"
"I wreak all the havoc I can until my luck runs out. I use our haul to build an empire."
"And after that?"
"Who knows? Maybe I'll burn it to the ground."
"Is that what makes you different from Rollins? That you'll leave nothing behind? — Leigh Bardugo

This is a new land, this is a new place, this is a new world, this is unknown. This is uncharted, this is all there is. We don't have any other place to go. I always quote Gene as saying "Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." And that was his whole philosophy of Star Trek, of life, of everything else. — Majel Barrett Roddenberry

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how. — Louise Hay

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds. — Frank Herbert

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. — Chester A. Arthur

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies. — Jonas Mekas

Being elegant means developing your ability to describe a concept in a beautiful and simple way for easy understanding. — Rohit Bhargava

There are only two types of change:
Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you, — Brendon Burchard

She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free. — Alexander McCall Smith

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat. — James Tiptree Jr.