Shvartse Quotes & Sayings

The village is coming back, like it or not. — David Brin

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness. — Vijay Seshadri

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality. — Susan Mitchell

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart. — Lillian Vernon

I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer. — Mark Lawrence

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age. — George Wald

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon. — Christopher Isherwood

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do? — Pythagoras

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin

Julia edged closer, wondering what kind of vocabulary dogs understood. Frederico Fellini, her cat, was an intellectual and she could talk about books and films to him, as long as it was after he'd been fed, and fed well. She had the vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics. — Lisa Marie Rice