Simians Lines Quotes & Sayings

REENTERING SPACECRAFT HEAT UP because they're compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). — Randall Munroe

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are. — Shirin Ebadi

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing. — Victoria Chang

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government. — Jack Kelly

You're never completely ready ... It just becomes your turn. — Ty Murray

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. — Leo Tolstoy

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. — Thomas Shepard

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone. — Jennifer Beals

Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. — Michael Lewis

God," said Benedict Fludd, "your God, that is, strides in and out of my life with no warning. One day he seems impossible - laughable, laughable - and the next, he is imperious." He stopped. He said "It is like the phases of the moon, maybe. Or the seasons of the sphere we live on, rolling in and out of the light, skeleton trees one day, and then snow, and afterwards the bright green veil and after that the full heat and shining. Only it is neither regular nor predictable. And there are - others - who stride in, when he takes himself off. Who seem persuasive. Like Hindoo demons who are gods in their own terms. — A.S. Byatt

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. — Leonard Cohen

Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course. — Peter Geye