Rainee Stumblingbear Quotes & Sayings

About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread 1984: there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The usual distinctions between forgotten details and a vivid general impression mean nothing here, for the book is written out of one passionate breath, each word is bent to a severe discipline of meaning, everything is stripped to the bareness of terror.
Kafka's The Trial is also a book of terror, but it is a paradigm and to some extent a puzzle, so that one may lose oneself in the rhythm of the paradigm and play with the parts of the puzzle. Kafka's novel persuades us that life is inescapably hazardous and problematic, but the very 'universality' of this idea helps soften its impact: to apprehend the terrible on the plane of metaphysics is to lend it an almost soothing aura. — Irving Howe

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best. — Ben Linder

This introduces a second reason why we must know who God is and what His name is: We were created to worship and glorify Him. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The vessel that holds poison becomes equally poisonous. When you are angry at someone, remember, you suffer the most. — Shubha Vilas

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. — Gerald Durrell

He began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. — Steve Jobs

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic. — Charlie Kaufman

You seem like a woman in need of a healthy dose of me. — Lacey Alexander

Modina lowered her voice and said, "I'll tell you a secret - it's not me at all, really. Sure, on occasion, I come up with something intelligent - and I am usually surprised by it myself - but the real genius behind my throne is Nimbus. Amilia deserves everything this empire can give her for hiring him. The man is a wonder: quiet, unassuming, but utterly brilliant. If he had a mind to, he could replace me in a heartbeat. I am convinced he could organize a perfectly lovely coup, but he has no aspirations for power at all. — Michael J. Sullivan

The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody. — Tim Russert

Its no longer in my dreams that I see u — Max Freesney Pierre

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up. — Mata Amritanandamayi

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous. — Zhuangzi