Sclerotic Density Quotes & Sayings

No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through. — Lex Luger

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress. Myron — Anne Frank

How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades. — James S.A. Corey

It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn't actually know I existed. — Sarah Dessen

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity. — Andrew O'Hagan

But William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them. — Terry Pratchett

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. — Patrick Rothfuss

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. — Tom Lehrer

Tell a man, he might understand; show a man, he will understand. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona. — Jeff Bridges

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. — Drew Karpyshyn

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans come to art for is an experience of suffering, necessarily a vicarious experience, more like a sort of "generalization" of suffering. Does this make sense? We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. — David Foster Wallace

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. — Friedrich Engels