Steampunk Christmas Quotes & Sayings

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent. — Sigmund Freud

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel. — Carl Henegan

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May

Surrealism, the gospel of chaos, found itself compelled, from its very inception, to create an order. But at first it only dreamed of destruction - by poetry, to begin with - on the plane of imprecation, and later by the use of actual weapons. The trial of the real world has become, by logical
development, the trial of creation. — Albert Camus

Life changes. It shapes itself into the most indefinite things; can become its opposite in a matter of seconds. Sometimes people scorn the quick, sharp tongue of life, but I don't think that's fair. Why would you act against something that's just doing its job? — Isabella Sutter

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man. — George R R Martin

She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me. — Billy Joel

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now." — Sogyal Rinpoche

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. — Mitch Daniels

All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published.
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it. — Robert Harris

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. — Patrick Fugit

Tears are liquid droplets cascading from the soul. — R.J. Antanaitis