Pedatory Quotes & Sayings

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate. — Neal Stephenson

See a bald woman in a black pencil skirt and white blouse. — Ben H. Winters

Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat. — Ransom Riggs

Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace. — Neale Donald Walsch

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it. — Melissa De La Cruz

But Mithgar ... Mithgar is yet wild, tempestuous, unkept, savage, turbulent, exciting. We come here to feel alive. — Dennis L. McKiernan

They walked with a pedatory grace ... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance" ... — Scott Westerfeld

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. — Junipero Serra

A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who wants in is left out. Outsider ideas are invited and celebrated....Each creator grows the revolution. Whatever kind of creator you may be, you are part of the revolution's orchestra, its folk music, chorus, melody, and anthem. — Ashfaq Ishaq

You have my heart, Maggie. Keep it safe. — A Meredith Walters

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner. — Alain De Botton

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. — Marianne Williamson

Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us. — Michael S. Horton