The Grandmaster Gong Er Quotes & Sayings

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms. — Randall Munroe

I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to — Ilsa Madden-Mills

The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden like the dandelions of which she'd spoken. The ones that had grown along the Franklin riverbank in late summer. The ones he had lost any faith in since he'd committed his first murder there. — V.S. Carnes

In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first. — Tim Cope

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall. — Tim Ward

The first rule of her
confrontational life-style was Always get the last word. The second
was Always make the first move. Making this first move was what she
thought of as Taking Care of Things, and she meant to take care of
Nettle in a hurry. — Stephen King

Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your physics teacher doesn't want to have this conversation.) — William Lane Craig

Fruit does not make a tree good. Fruit does not give life. Fruit is a sign of life and reality. — John Piper

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage. — Alex Lifeson

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread." — Henry Ward Beecher

By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality. — Milton Friedman

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse. — Beth Ditto