Startlement Quotes & Sayings

To Komarr, my lord? Or Sergyar?" "No. Calculate the shortest possible jump route directly to Rho Ceta." Vorpatril's head jerked back in startlement. "If the orders I received from Sector Five HQ mean what we think, you'll hardly get passage there. Reception by plasma fire and fusion shells the moment you pop out of the wormhole would be what I'd expect." "Unpack, Miles," Ekaterin's voice drifted in. He grinned briefly at the familiar exasperation in her voice. "By the time we arrive there, I will have arranged our clearances with the Cetagandan Empire." I hope. Or else they were all going to be in more trouble than Miles ever wanted to imagine. "Barrayar is bringing their kidnapped haut babies back to them. On the end of a long stick. I get to be the stick. — Lois McMaster Bujold

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. — John Green

Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world? — Alan Watts

Reading brings us unknown friends — Honore De Balzac

We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded. — Tetsuo Miura

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What we want is never simple. — Linda Pastan

Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the more likely we are to touch the universal truths that unite us. But what happens is exactly the reverse: as our discourse becomes more abstract, the less connected we feel. There is less sense of community among intellectuals than in the most 'primitive' society of storytellers. Parker Palmer, AHW, 123 — Parker J. Palmer

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer
a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us. — Gary Lutz

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core. — Mary Parker Follett