Piechniks Clio Quotes & Sayings

One of the advantages of a life much longer than average was that you saw how fragile the future was. Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes. What changed history were smaller things. Often a few strokes of the pen would do the trick. — Terry Pratchett

Are you okay?"
"Yeah."
"Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you. — Joel N. Ross

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity. — Martin Villeneuve

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society. — Robert McKee

Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done? — Neale Donald Walsch

I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud I say to myself silently and write it here. What can one build in the desert? Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and I know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. What do we do in the desert if we lose each other? How does one go on living after that? — Graham Greene

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough. — Catherine Deneuve

What is the usual percentage?" Pandora asked. "Whatever it is, I'll give you half."
Raising one brow, Rhys asked, "Why only half?"
"Don't I deserve an in-law discount?" Pandora asked ingenuously.
Rhys laughed, looking so boyish that Helen felt her heart quicken. "Aye, you do. — Lisa Kleypas

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking. — Gertrude Stein

I love life and people, so I guess I want to help anyone I can live the fullest, most wonderful life possible. — Rachele Brooke Smith

Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country. — James Weldon Johnson

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs? — Kiana Davenport

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA - hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and - hey presto - suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps — Ben Aaronovitch