Octonauts Quasi Quotes & Sayings

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is a crutch for weaklings. The strong carry on without." -Animal — Indra Sinha

The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway. — Ray Bradbury

People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know. — Hanif Kureishi

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. — Silvia Cartwright

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design. — John McAslan

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer. — Rudy Wiebe

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. — Herbert M. Shelton

But anyway, I look around sometimes and I think - this will maybe sound weird - it's like the corporate world's full of ghosts. And actually, let me revise that, my parents are in academia so I've had front row seats for that horror show, I know academia's no different, so maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts."

"I'm sorry, I'm not sure I quite --"

"I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped. Dan's like that."

"You don't think he likes his job, then."

"Correct," she said, "but I don't think he even realises it. You probably encounter people like him all the time. High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially. — Emily St. John Mandel