Provisional Cast Quotes & Sayings

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle. — Steven Pressfield

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. — Jodi Picoult

He whose sin is due to desires, then have hope for him. And he whose sin is due to pride, then fear for him - because Nabi Adam disobeyed due to desire and was forgiven, and Iblis sinned due to pride and was cursed — Sufyan Ibn Uyaynah

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. — Augustus Waters The Fault In Our Stars

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right. — Patrick DeWitt

no simple mechanism could do the job as well or better. It might simply be that nobody has yet found the simpler alternative. The Ptolemaic system (with the Earth in the center, orbited by the Sun, the Moon, planets, and stars) represented the state of the art in astronomy for over a thousand years, and its predictive accuracy was improved over the centuries by progressively complicating the model: adding epicycles upon epicycles to the postulated celestial motions. Then the entire system was overthrown by the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, which was simpler and - though only after further elaboration by Kepler - more predictively accurate.63 Artificial intelligence methods are now used in more areas than it would make sense to review here, but mentioning a sampling of them will give an idea of the breadth of applications. Aside from the game AIs — Nick Bostrom

People who have been hunting all their lives with no compunction to consider the exchange they make and the gravity of the trade, I don't know where to put them. I just remind myself there are too many mule deer for the earth to handle, and before my inner dialogue says we took their space, not the other way around, I try to change the channel. — Liz Stephens

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again. — Ally Walker

Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy — Lawrence Hill

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read. — Larry Wall

Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another. — Peter Bray

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that. — Sophia Loren

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. — Aesop