Sesleria Quotes & Sayings

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps. — Evan Williams

Moving into the hallway, I make the mistake of looking down. The floor seems to drop out from under me, with nothing solid to support me but my own reflection.
I take a step, watching the sole of my bare left foot meet its twin rising up on the flipside. I get the weirdest sensation that I won't fall as long as I have the reversed images of my own feet to walk on. — Graham McNamee

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. — Heraclitus

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted. — Kevin Shelley

I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what's so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die? That's just a cruel joke, as I see it. — A.S. King

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind. — Louis C.K.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. — Mike Pence

Can you see your own death?" "Everyone sees it," Persephone said mildly. "Most people make themselves stop looking, though." "I don't see my own death," Adam said. But even as he said it, he felt the corner of knowledge bite into him. It was now, it was coming, it had already happened. Somewhere, someWHEN, he was dying. — Maggie Stiefvater

Do you want to walk for a bit? It's probably ridiculously dangerous, but YOLO and what not. — Claire Zorn

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. — Harold Edward Holt

I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place. — Olivia Sudjic

Eighty percent of the reviewers and authors of reviewed books in the New York Review of Books in 2013 were men, as were almost 80 percent of the 'notable deaths' reported in the New York Times in 2012. — Laura Bates

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment. — Jim Lefebvre

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. — Pankaj Mishra