Sudoland Quotes & Sayings

Empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves ... These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks bound with gold or pearls bear the glittering symbols of their captivity to men. — Laura Cereta

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world. — Barack Obama

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. — Yann Martel

No one has yet determined the power of the human species ... what it may
perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination. — Brian Herbert

Here's the thing about close combat in real life: It's almost always over in a matter of seconds. Not like in the movies, where your hero has the luxury to strategize and maneuver and grapple for minutes on end. Fortunately, when your life is in danger, your brain kicks in. Deep inside your brain this little almond-shaped gland called the amygdala sends out the signal to make your body start pumping out dopamine and adrenaline and cortisol. Time seems to slow, your focus sharpens, you suddenly start perceiving way more stimuli than normal. Neurologists call this tachypsychia. Everyone else calls it the fight-or-flight response. Cavemen who didn't have it got eaten by saber-toothed tigers. So I made a quick decision. I could either be incapacitated by a Taser, or I could put myself within the reach of Bondarchuk's fists. No choice. — Joseph Finder

(According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.") — Stephen Hawking

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist. — William Segal

My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. — Steve Jobs

Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws clasped together in front of his heart, and he felt suddenly as if his own heart would break in two. His father looked so small, so sad.
"Forgive me," said Lester again.
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.
Isn't it ridiculous, after all, to think that a son could forgive his father for beating the drum that sent him to his death? Isn't it ridiculous to think that a mouse ever could forgive anyone for such perfidy?
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa."
And he said those words because he sensed it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself. — Kate DiCamillo

Wisdom can be found anywhere.
Be wise enough and brave enough
to recognize it! — Russell Anthony Gibbs

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. — Anita Brookner

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos

In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was meant to be. Then nothing, only the cold apathy of deepest space. — Marcha A. Fox