Smgix Quotes & Sayings

Over thirty of the fifty Outer Worlds, including my native Aurora, were directly colonized by Earthmen. Is colonization no longer possible?" "Well ... " "No answer? Let me suggest that if it is no longer possible, it is because of the development of City culture on Earth. Before the Cities, human life on Earth wasn't so specialized that they couldn't break loose and start all over on a raw world. They did it thirty times. But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever. — Isaac Asimov

Stop and consider! life is but a day — John Keats

Our memories are what make us who we are. Some are real. Some are made up. But they are the stories that tell us who we are. Without them we are nobody. — Clare Furniss

Well, if that wasn't the kettle talking smack about the pot, I don't know what was. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

What are the gifts given to we who live Below?"
"Long life, health, strength, and happiness."
"What is the curse of those who live Above?"
"Short life, illness, weakness, and misery."
"Is this fair?"
"It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below."
"Then give thanks. — Ally Condie

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine. — Ray Winstone

Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us. — Jenny Cutler Lopez

Some people spend their life studying maps but never start the journey; other people blast off the starting line full speed ahead without first charting a course. Most of us could benefit from a better balance between planning and doing. — Gregory D. Kincaid

... Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something ... — Louisa May Alcott

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional. — Javier Bardem

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway. — Eric Idle

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. — William Shakespeare

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them. — Babur