Overbay Construction Quotes & Sayings

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world. — Wendy Lesser

What I Suddenly Understand
My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life.
> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim. — Jennifer Egan

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. — William Feather

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered. — Jane Alison

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. — Diogenes

There is a widespread belief about quantum mechanics, as also about relativity, that it is something that one is entitled to ignore for most ordinary philosophical and scientific purposes, since it only seriously applies at the micro level of reality; where 'micro' means something far smaller than would show up in any conventional microscope. What sits on top of this micro level, so the assumption runs, is a sufficiently good approximation of the old classical Newtonian picture to justify our continuing, as philosophers, to think about the world in essentially classical terms. I believe this to be a fundamental mistake. What I shall be arguing...is that the world is quantum-mechanical through and through; and that the classical picture of reality is, even at the microscopic level, deeply inadequate. — Stephen T. DeBerry

Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare

Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the changeless blood of man.
...
There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the troubled dream beside.
There, on thoughts that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep. — A.E. Housman

I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it; — John Shelby Spong