Procedurally Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

And she imagined how things could be later. It was stupid, but the picture just appeared in her mind. Abel and Magnus shoveling snow together ... in twenty years, in thirty. Magnus had grown old, his broad back still strong but bent from time, his hair nearly white at the temples. And Abel ... Abel was a different Abel, an adult one, one who was absolutely self-confident and didn't let his eyes dart around the room at lunch, as if he were caught in trap.
"Nonsense," she whispered. "Thirty years? You don't stay with the person you meet at seventeen ... what kind of fairy tale are you living in, Anna Leemann?"
And still the picture seemed right. — Antonia Michaelis

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick. — Samuel Johnson

We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money. — Larry Page

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing. — Tony Judt

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. — Charles Horton Cooley

He was capable of wild mood swings that went from murder to concern for a spider in under five minutes. In the end, loving Myrnin, really loving him, could be like living with an unexploded bomb - sooner or later it was bound to go off, and for someone fragile and human, it would be fatal. — Rachel Caine

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything! — Ray Stevens

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. — Esther Hicks

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog. — Duncan Sheik

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light. — Paulo Coelho

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius. — T. S. Eliot

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government. — James Surowiecki