Silpakorn Library Quotes & Sayings

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. — Italo Calvino

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different. — Mat McNerney

Fracking exemplifies the technological wager, by which I mean a gamble or even a faith that we can transform the world in the pursuit of narrowly defined goals and successfully manage the broader unintended consequences that result. In many ways, we are gambling on present innovations. I think that if we are to live with high technology we cannot avoid this wager. The question is whether we can establish conditions to make it a fair and reasonable bet. In the case of fracking, I will argue, these conditions are largely not in place (3). — Adam Briggle

You could tell the position of the dragon by the rattle of arrows across the city, and by the screams and gurgles of all those hit by the misses and ricochets. — Terry Pratchett

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'
I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her ... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me. — George Eliot

Am I hurting you at all?"
"Not enough," he whispered. "Make me bleed. — Olivia Cunning

The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers. — Andrea M. Ghez

Didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered? — Margaret Mitchell

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Joseph Story