Odin Edda Quotes & Sayings

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KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be.

POLO: And here, in fact, we are. — Italo Calvino

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. — Jane Goodall

What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. — Pope Francis

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is. — Jane Goodall

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. — Susan Sontag

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity. — Eric Samuel Timm

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously. — Agnes De Mille

God has your best interest! You'll get what He has designed for you. You are going to excel if you follow the path that he has placed in front of you. — Terraine Francois

Yeah," I said, "Whatever." I didn't want to talk anymore about what had just happened; I hated that about Promise. Why couldn't a moment just happen, and both of us be aware of it, without having to comment on it forever and ever? — Emily M. Danforth

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance. — Deborah Moggach

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life. — Eoin Colfer

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it. — Julia L. Roberts