Sbhonline Quotes & Sayings

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason. — Francisco Goya

Once you know the special brand of pain that comes with being separated from someone you know down to the marrow of his bones, you learn not to try. — Alexandra Bracken

One of the popular songs in Tyler's rebellion was the familiar couplet: "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" Shakespeare refers to it in "Hamlet," where the grave-diggers speak as follows: "First Clown. Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentleman but gardners, ditchers and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. Second Clown. Was he a gentleman? First Clown. He was the first that ever bore arms. Second Clown. Why, he had none. First Clown. What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says, Adam digged; could he dig without arms?" (Act 5, — William Shakespeare

And Ulysses stopped his ears against the siren's song for it was death. — V.E Schwab

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones
those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. — Susan Sontag

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance. — Otto Heinrich Warburg

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation. — John Milton

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure. — Susanne Bier

Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business ... These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business. — Don Richardson

Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty. — Daniel Kahneman

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. — Curt Flood

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry. — Anthony Jeselnik

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau