Skywatchers Quotes & Sayings

The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn't wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He'd been the only one bewitched body and soul. For her, he'd been but a temporary source of entertainment, a way to pass the otherwise tedious hours in the middle of an ocean.
He'd been the one to press for a continuation of their affair beyond the voyage. He'd been the one to offer his heart, his hand, his every last secret. She never even gave her real name.
And, of course, never showed her face. — Sherry Thomas

Failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware — Stephen E. Ambrose

Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other. — Cael Sanderson

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. — David Lloyd George

They don't sell friends in stores.... — Whitney G.

I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing. — Anna Carey

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. — Charles De Lint

By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in a position to awaken the minds of the people about what was happening. — Junius Williams

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. — Adam Davidson

I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now. — Donald Fagen

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. — William Blake

I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical. — David Leslie Johnson

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. — T. S. Eliot

The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature. — Nhat Hanh