Subplots Python Quotes & Sayings

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man. — Yvon Chouinard

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do. — Paul Samuelson

I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears. — Shiki Masaoka

She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night. — Thomas Pynchon

Power tastes best when sweetened by courtesy.
-Roose Bolton — George Martin

The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop. — H.G.Wells

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good. — Graham Greene

The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country. — David Brooks

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae

The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

One drunk shepherd, two drunk shepherd, three drunk shepherd,' I counted, and thunder rolled. Three miles away. — Karen Perkins

Together we knew that we could have success. — Troy Vincent

I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines ... the comfort and the measurements of its environment ... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on. — Harry Bertoia

I still like to get carried away - but passively. — Robert Plant