Rats Deserting A Sinking Ship Quotes & Sayings

Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. Matthew 2:2 — Sarah Palin

Perhaps for the first time in any medium, the person teaching you science - Carl Sagan - cared about the tangled mental roadways that can rob a person of rational thought. — Carl Sagan

Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. Why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you'll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they're only a kind of fantasy one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped. However cleverly you've faked the alibi, they know perfectly well that it's you who did it, and they'll pin it onto you somehow.
When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect -which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage. — George Orwell

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking. — Margaret Heffernan

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do — Ann Patchett

Treat everyone with the sweetness of love and respect. — Debasish Mridha

Yet it would be nearly impossible to overstate Lyell's influence. The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in his lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. Darwin took a first edition with him on the Beagle voyage and wrote afterwards that 'the great merit of the Principles was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind, and therefore that, when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes22.' In short, he thought him nearly a god, as did many of his generation. It is a testament to the strength of Lyell's sway that in the 1980s, when geologists had to abandon just a part of his theory to accommodate the impact theory of extinctions, it nearly killed them. But that is another chapter. — Bill Bryson

Try and fail,but don't fail to try. — John Quincy Adams

I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy. — Vijender Singh

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." — John Bunyan

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ... — Thinley Norbu

Living it up to me meant getting drunk ... ; it meant losing myself in anything that could take the past away. I wanted to be numb; I wanted to never feel again. After all that had happened in the last couple years, I just wanted a way to forget it all. — Holly Hood