Post Literacy Memes Quotes & Sayings

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely. — Adam Duritz

Compassion
that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. — D.C. Fontana

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order. — Edith Wharton

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven. — Daniel Barenboim

Contemporary consciousness is no longer equipped to deal with our mortality. Never in any other time, or any other civilization, have people thought so much or so contantly about aging. Each individual has a simple view of the future: a time will come when the sum of pleasures that life has left to offer is outweighed by the sum of pain (one can actually feel the meter ticking, and it ticks always in the same direction). This weighing up of pleasure and pain, which everyone is forced to make sooner or later, leads logically, at a certain age, to suicide. — Michel Houellebecq

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted. — Jared Diamond

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin — Arundhati Roy

The Law has become a person. When we encounter Jesus, we feed on the living God himself, so to speak; we truly eat "bread from heaven. — Pope Benedict XVI

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values. — Steve Coogan

Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.

-Ehlena's thoughts — J.R. Ward

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you. — Chloe Grace Moretz