Templum Vestae Quotes & Sayings

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. — John Steinbeck

My feeling is that the concept of superrationality is one whose truth will come to dominate among intelligent beings in the universe simply because its adherents will survive certain kinds of situations where its opponents will perish. Let's wait a few spins of the galaxy and see. After all, healthy logic is whatever remains after evolution's merciless pruning. — Douglas Hofstadter

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay. — Dev Anand

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be. — Ali Meshkini

And he was probably right. Unless Hills Village Middle School had a witness protection program, I was dead meat. Man, I hated Miller. — James Patterson

It's going to take a while for some of these things. — Jeff Flake

Secrecy is for losers. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling. — Jessica Simpson

It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid. — Lois Lowry

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance ... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message. — Terry Taylor

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. — Mary Ann Shaffer

The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags ... — Wallace Stevens