Recherches Bibliographiques Quotes & Sayings

Know nothing, know all things, then know nothing — Es

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death. — Daniel Quinn

He who loses his people and his national character loses both the faith of his fathers and God. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Imagine if you will, creatures as unlike us as it is possible to be; creatures whose technology dwarfed ours as we dwarf the ants. Creatures whose sole purpose was to wipe out all existing life on Earth and replace it with their own. Beings who did not know the meaning of mercy, who were uninterested in dialogue, with whom one could not even plead. That is what we were up against, Henry. — Stephanie Osborn

Not showing up to a wedding post-RSVP guarantees expulsion from the couple's A list in the future. — Carolyn Gerin

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect. — Patrick MacGill

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world. — Eve Ensler

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion is the level of emotion you bring to something. It is not about how loud or how much you speak, but about how committed you are to a positive outcome. — Teresa De Grosbois

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature ...
But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger! — Bushwick Bill

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! — Henry James