Sovello Quotes & Sayings

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness. — Joe Haldeman

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing.
So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me. — Tracy Hickman

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore. — Herman Melville

It sounded like a demon dinosaur. Not that I'd ever heard one of those, but it was what I imagined one would sound like. It nearly made my heart stop with fear. — Elle Casey

I was reading a book ... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. — Tim Vine

Scientists and theologians can't offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: In reference to what? — Frank Schaeffer

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you can use the other person's logic to show why the right thing is better, then you can probably win over the world to your leadership. — Frank McKinley

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet. — Omar Bongo

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future. — Sonakshi Sinha

Penny: PROBLEM. Spider in the clean laundry basket and now it's gone. I have to burn down the house. Gray: No. Penny: You're not grasping the severity of this situation. The spider is huge and it's going to eat the cat. Gray: Then the spider will rightfully take our cat's place and become our beloved spider cat. Penny: This is on you. And remember that thing I said you could do to me tonight? It's off the table. — Jill Shalvis

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act. — Rebecca Solnit