Safe 1995 Quotes & Sayings

What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. — Arabella Weir

How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds. — Jack Vance

Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland 'firestorm' of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail to mention them, in my dreams that fail to represent them. — Robert Appelbaum

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune. — Napoleon Hill

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There are fates worse than death. — Maggie Stiefvater

What was this mania for universal adoration? Mathilde knew herself unworthy of the love of a single soul, and he wanted the love of everyone. — Lauren Groff

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.
By-and-by has no end. — Saint Augustine

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry. — Steven Gerrard

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. — Henry S. Haskins

How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum. — Sally Mann