Satyra Ponder Quotes & Sayings

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together. — Robin Hobb

It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. — William Blake

Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets. — Brock Clarke

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been? — Frederick Sommer

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century. — Randy Lerner

This is why I should have had a son of my own, thought Ender. To lean on me when he was small, and then for me to lean on when I'm old. — Orson Scott Card

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness. — Galileo Galilei

He's waiting for yu, young queen.'
Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'
The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak. — P.C. Cast

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose. — Groucho Marx

Well-meaning friends ' often the worst kind ' handed me the usual clich+!s, and so I feel in a pretty good position to warn you: Just offer your deepest condolences. Don't tell me I'm young. Don't tell me it'll get better. Don't tell me she's in a better place. Don't tell me it's part of some divine plan. Don't tell me that I was lucky to have known such a love. Every one of those platitudes pissed me off. They made me ' and this is going to sound uncharitable ' stare at the idiot and wonder why he or she still breathed while my Elizabeth rotted. — Harlan Coben

Meir, let me ask you something," I said after a while.
"Sure."
"Do you think I'm a bad person?"
"Only God knows that for sure, Willy."
"So you don't have an opinion at all?"
"Not one that really matters."
"Okay, let me ask you something else. If the Polish peasant who hid Jews from the Nazis is a hero, what is the Polish peasant who turned the Jews away? Is he a coward?"
Meir smiled, "Of course."
"Really? A coward? A bad man?"
"A coward isn't a bad man, necessarily. You can't know if you're a bad man until you die."
"You've got to wait until you hear god's decision?"
"Well, yes, that's true. But I meant something else. Only when you die do you run out of chances to be good. Until then, there is always the possibility of turning yourself around. — Zoe Heller