Sinistrainrete Quotes & Sayings

And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible. — Hermann Maier

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs. — Thomas Merton

You can't change nature, son!"
"Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide. — Kitty Richards

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness. — Barry Diller

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff. — Barry Hannah

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. — Henrik Ibsen

We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation. — Mother Teresa

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience. — Frederick Lenz

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. — Regina Brett

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success. — Jon Jones

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible. — Augustine Of Hippo

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one. — Victoria Moran

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith) — Steven Moffat