Silichong Quotes & Sayings

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its member to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does! — Daniel Dennett

Brain death didn't allow one time to heal, and the brain was the warehouse for the spirit. Punch a hole in that and you'd shuffle off your mortal coil right away.
Keeping your coil unshuffled was the problem. — Kevin Hearne

What tormented Ivan Ilyich most," Tolstoy writes, "was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result." Ivan Ilyich has flashes of hope that maybe things will turn around, but as he grows weaker and more emaciated he knows what is happening. He lives in mounting anguish and fear of death. But death is not a subject that his doctors, friends, or family can countenance. That is what causes him his most profound pain. — Atul Gawande

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do. — Carly Rae Jepsen

Sow but don't rush to gather the fruits — Valgame

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing. — Amanda Harlech

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting. — Jennifer Chiaverini

Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. — Florence Scovel Shinn

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through — Gloria Estefan

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. — Oscar Wilde

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift. — Pete Wentz

I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show. — Aaron Douglas

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. — Douglass North