Statisme Quotes & Sayings

It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. — Nora Roberts

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. — Charles Caleb Colton

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story.
People, who influence, who possess the drift, the force whose implication leads us forward in our course of life. We might have never come across them until today and probably not hear from them tomorrow or ever after, for all that exists is this moment, a moment enough for them to fulfil their purpose that being to help us find our way and enough for us to fulfil ours that being to actually find it, reach it, accomplish it.
They are the ones who bring meaning to our lives, who happen to inspire, who spark a fire that we carry with us for the rest of our days, who are but pillars of hope and sometimes sacrifice, life-changers, life-savers, catalysts. — Chirag Tulsiani

See you around," I said.
"See you around," said one.
"See you around," said the other.
The phrase echoed in my heart for a long while.
The bus door closed with a bang, and then they were waving to me from the window. Everything repeats itself... — Haruki Murakami

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you're secretly glad to be pressed up to my body. — Jessica Sorensen

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. — Joseph Joubert

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down. — Virginia Woolf

Home is where the Books are. — Richard Burton