Shrieve Holly Houston Quotes & Sayings

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman

It is fine if you can jog when you are ninety, but it is better if you can think. — Carobeth Laird

It must be noted that the non-aggression alone can never be the starting point in justifying moral behavior or serving as a fundamental principle of ethics. There must be a justification of the non-aggression principle before such a case can be made. The very implication of the term "principle" implies that non-aggression serves as the foundation for a system of ethics, which it cannot be. It is certainly not an axiom since it is not a self-evident truth. — Daniel Alexander Brackins

Life is not a matter for simple optimism
for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism
for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning. — Rollo May

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing. — Thomas Carlyle

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

It's never wise to make love to a god.
I say love, as if
they understand the concept,
or anything except want and how to take. — Jennifer A. McGowan

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson