Samallworlds Quotes & Sayings

for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience. — Matthew Henry

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. — Carroll Quigley

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related ...
Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated. — Jayceon Terrell Taylor

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages. — Peter Farb

Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further, many of the students here had arrived without academic credentials in mathematics or music, de rigueur for entry to the other Athenian schools of higher learning. Everyone in the Garden radiated earnestness and good cheer. The subject under discussion was happiness. — Epicurus

A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun — Shaquille O'Neal

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. — Charles Bukowski

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me. — Robert H. Jackson

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise. — Nicholas Sparks

I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but it seemed to have taken my spirit with it, and everything else it could lay its paws on. — Sylvia Plath

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The word should be thinkering. — Michael Ondaatje

I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings. — Adriana Petryna

To drink away sorrow. — Horace