Sisnette Quotes & Sayings

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep. — Idries Shah

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. — Dan Lipinski

MirkerLurker: I thought the characters were the reason anyone read Monstrous Sea.

rainmaker: You mean like, shipping?

MirkerLurker: No, not shipping - shipping's great, and I do it all the time, but I mean... the characters themselves. The struggles they have to go through, and when you really love them, how much they affect you. When the characters are good, they make you care about everything else. That's why I draw them. It probably sounds dumb, but they're like real people to me. And this will probably sound worse, but sometimes I like them better than real people. I can empathize with characters. Real people are harder. — Francesca Zappia

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written. — Thomas Mallon

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. — Donella Meadows

darting and sparkling under the sun of the desert at full speed, only to go back even faster — Jack Goodwind

Y'did some backcountry doctoring. Right brave, that was. But her thigh looks bad, and we're a day out of Salvation. — Ann Aguirre

Our minds are like the universe. How do we know what's hidden in some corner of that space? Beyond the galaxies we know. To places where light doesn't travel...We feel, write, think and argue about what we see. But the unknown exists and sometimes, makes an unexpected appearance. I experienced a part of that unknown through a man. — Chitrangada Mukherjee

There are some men above grief and some men below it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity ... It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer