Spandrell Vs Minirib Quotes & Sayings

It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects. — Vann Chow

There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out. — Hugh Howey

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility ... According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. — C.S. Lewis

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with. — James Surowiecki

But now ... it's like when part of you stops hurting and suddenly you're yourself again, healthy and whole, and only then do you understand that you've been in pain for a while. — Cynthia Hand

So when his tractor came to a smash-halt, the potato-digger rising up behind and then crashing back down, Bob was flung forward over the engine block and directly into the Dome. His iPod exploded in the wide front pocket of his bib overalls, but he never felt it. He broke his neck and fractured his skull on the nothing he collided with and died in the dirt shortly thereafter, by one tall wheel of his tractor, which was still idling. Nothing, you know, runs like a Deere. — Stephen King

Live your life by just one word and that is reciprocity. — Debasish Mridha

It could be a true future that Ilven saw - she's a Saint after all.

Was. Was a Saint. — Cat Hellisen

This is my life, I thought ... I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet? — Abraham Verghese

Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure. — Thomas Helwys

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. — Sam Harris

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation. — Richard Stanley

I'm a Words With Friends dork! — Spencer Kayden

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations. — Phillip Lopate

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph! — Jules Renard