Range Book David Epstein Quotes & Sayings

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life. — Oscar Wilde

Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens — Max Lucado

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave wants to make you be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate. — Neil Gaiman

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show. — Matt Taibbi

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves. — Aldous Huxley

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys. — Rachel Johnson

You seem quite determined to make this as difficult as possible," Lord Rogar growled.
"Didn't you once tell me you enjoyed a challenge?" Rhianna shot back. — C.M. Williams

Sadness was the driver, the motor of his invention, the engine of his creativity. — Charles Yu

My path was predetermined by the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy. — Javier Bardem

What's your family?" he demanded through clenched teeth.
" Boleyn."
" What's your kin?"
"Howard's."
"What's your home?"
"Hever and Rochford."
"What's your kingdom?"
"England."
"Who's your king?"
"Henry."
"Then serve them. In that order. Did I say the Spanish queen once in that list?"
"No."
"Remember it. — Philippa Gregory

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does? — Lois Greiman