Sekas Homes Quotes & Sayings

While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing. — Srinivasa Ramanujan

Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it. — Jackson Pearce

I'd never admitted before how much I wanted to hear those words. How much I wanted to be treasured, cared for, loved. Not just loved for the person I tried to be, but the person I was. — Annabel Joseph

Physical. In other words, we are understanding one thing in terms of something else of the same kind. But in conventional metaphor, we are understanding one thing in terms of something else of a different kind. In "Inflation has gone up," for example, we understand inflation (which is abstract) in terms of a physical substance, and we understand an increase of inflation (which is also abstract) in terms of a physical orientation (up). The only difference is whether our projection involves the same kinds of things or different kinds of things. — George Lakoff

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. — Samuel Johnson

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. — Frederick E. Crane

God loves greatly those whom he requires to suffer greatly. — Jennifer Worth

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer. — Honus Wagner

If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat. — Alice Cooper

The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years ... all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power. — John Adams

You have to stay one level above everyone else. — Jim Otto

It is my fault".
"You're right. It is". At that Jace looked up in absolute astonishment. Surprise at being agreed with battled with horror and relief in equal measures.
"Is it?"
"The harm is not deliberate, of course. But you are like me. We poison and destroy everything we love. There is a reason for that".
"What reason?"
Valentine glanced up at the sky. "We are meant for a higher purpose, you and I. The distractions of the world are just that, distractions. If we allow ourselves to be turned aside from our course by them, we are duly punished."
"And our punishment is visited on everyone we care about? That seems a little hard on them."
"Fate is never fair[...] — Cassandra Clare

Oh come on, smile. Lisa, Jack ... being bisexual is hardly a crime. Best of both worlds, isn't it?'
And Ianto pushed her away. 'No,Gwen. No, really it's bloody not. It's the worst of any world because you don't really belong anywhere, because you are never sure of yourself ot those around you. You can't trust in anyone, their motives or their intentions. And because of that, you have, in a world that likes its shiny labels, no true identity. — Gary Russell