Queffelec Quotes & Sayings

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material. — Sam Underwood

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion? — Marie Lu

In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends ... It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise in how something should be done, afraid or incapable of thinking about why. — Neil Postman

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. — Iris Chang

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. — Ian Hacking

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I swear to thee, friend, and may God Almighty bear me witness. For the sake of your love to me, never shall those that are yours go wanting, while I have aught to give. — Diana Gabaldon

Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it. — Joey W. Hill