Realizethings Quotes & Sayings

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. — Ambrose Bierce

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce. — Elena Ferrante

Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15). — James E. Talmage

By this point Viviane Lavender had loved Jack Griffith for twelve years, which was far more than half of her life. If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies. If she were to preserve it, she would need 23,725 glass jars and labels and a basement spanning the length of Pinnacle Lane.
If she were to drink it, she'd drown. — Leslye Walton

For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses. — Stefan Zweig

Passing over them [Egyptian kings], then, I will mention the person who reigned after them, whose name was Sesotris. [ ... ] Whenever he encountered a brave people who put up a fierce fight in defence of their autonomy, he erected pillars in their territory with an inscription recording his own name and country, and how he and his army has overcome them. However, when he took a place easily, without a fight, he had a message inscribed on the pillar in the same way as for the brave tribes, but he also added a picture of a woman's genitalia, to indicate that they where cowards. 2-[102] — Herodotus

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. — Sigmund Freud

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about. — Jodi Picoult

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future. — John Harvey-Jones

The network approach also sheds light on another important feature: the fact that certain systems that grow without external control are still capable of spontaneously developing an internal order. — Guido Caldarelli

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness, everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps this is what dreaming, and art, are for. — Helen Garner