Sgian Achlais Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. — Christopher Hitchens

The friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves. — Aristotle.

Pills for sickness;
books for ignorance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. — Steven Weber

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. — Rodney Crowell

Technocracy gave us the idea of progress, and of necessity loosened our bonds with tradition - whether political or spiritual. Technocracy filled the air with the promise of new freedoms and new forms of social organization. Technocracy also speeded up the world. We could get places faster, do things faster, accomplish more in a shorter time. Time, in fact, became an adversary over which technology could triumph. And this meant that there was no time to look back or to contemplate what was being lost. — Neil Postman

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night. — Edmund Waller

[B]eyond the divisiveness among men there exists a primordial unitive power since we are all bound together by a common humanity more fundamental than any unity of dogma. — Ruth Nanda Anshen

Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller. — Kristen Johnston

Remind me why I took this job,' Kai muttered. 'People pointed guns at you. Right?' 'Yeah. Something like that.' 'And you like books.' She glanced sidelong at him. He flashed a quick, genuine smile at her. 'Yeah. That would be it. — Genevieve Cogman

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet. — Richard Powers

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And
ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore! — George Arnold