Stropharia Cubensis Quotes & Sayings

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on. — Sandra Dallas

We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science. — Liang Qichao

We speak sweet intentions, but our hearts remain silent. — Renee Paule

Fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead — Alan Dean Foster

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills. — Gale Sayers

May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future. — Nanae Chrono

We weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her — Sam Andrew

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be. — Nicholas Of Cusa

Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore. — Rainbow Rowell

I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance. — Kevin Emerson

WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it. — John Battelle

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem. — Terence McKenna

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato The Elder