Smullyan And Fitting Quotes & Sayings

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once. — Alan Watts

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. — Charles Krauthammer

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message. — Dan Brown

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity. — Mandy Moore

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. — Samuel Johnson

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. — Jane Smiley

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson

We shouldn't take for granted the security and comfort of our neighborhoods, we shouldn't think that always leaving our windows open and our doors unlocked means that we're beyond an encroachment. We may believe our gates are insurmountable and that we're armored by routines, but can't we be touched by chance or fate, plucked up like a mouse foraging along his well-worn trail? Before you know it, you're looking down at the last faint print of your claws in the dirt. — Chang-rae Lee

I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: 'Get off!' It never occurred to him that he was achieving the opposite of his dreams of superiority and had become a living object of contempt, that human beings, when they are human, dare not conduct themselves in such ways. — Bessie Head

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon. — Robert Bly

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe. — Stephen King

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best. — Colm Feore

I've always had a sense of responsibility - I think that comes with being the oldest kid in the family. Now, I'm getting more comfortable with acting a little younger and carefree because I've been so responsible my whole life. I'm letting go a little. — Cote De Pablo

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. — K.d. Lang

The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work. — Timothy J. Keller