Setoid Quotes & Sayings

When you are dying and coming to life in each moment, would-be scientific predictions about what will happen after death are of little consequence. The whole glory of it is that we do not know. Ideas of survival and annihilation are alike based on the past, on memories of waking and sleeping, and, in their different ways, the notions of everlasting continuity and everlasting nothingness are without meaning. It needs but slight imagination to realize that everlasting time is a monstrous nightmare, so that between heaven and hell as ordinarily understood there is little to choose. — Alan W. Watts

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. — Mikhail Lermontov

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre. — Ruskin Bond

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family. — Tom Ford

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship. — Aoife O'Donovan

Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution. — Vladimir Putin

You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously
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"With all that red-hot passion, it's a wonder you guys can stay away from each other — Richelle Mead

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. — Paul Berg

I suppose we should contact the local authorities?" said Wilbur.
"I'm a princess," said Harriet. "We're in the hamster kingdom. I kinda am the authorities."
"Yeah, but you're more a hitting-things-with-a-sword princess than a rehabilitating-villains princess."
"Being hit with a sword can be very rehabilitating, under the right circumstances. — Ursula Vernon

Manism (ancestor cults) - but it was not as concerned — Reza Aslan

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions. — Heraclitus

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. — Miguel Ruiz