Tiikm Quotes & Sayings

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet ... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some ... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged. — Terry Pratchett

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence — John Green

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. — Gregory Maguire

If physical mobility is an essential condition of freedom, the bicycle has probably been the greatest single device for achieving what Marx called the full realization of the possibilities of being human invented since Gutenberg, and the only one without obvious drawbacks. — Eric Hobsbawm

I believe in miracles ... prayers that are answered and healing hands. — John McLeod

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering. — Curt Gabrielson

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results. — Agatha Christie

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility. — Tim Cahill

Especially those of us who use magic on a regular basis, have to work the wards." "So hes basically blocking members of the Authority?" "Hounds use magic every day. Doctors, teachers." "Point taken. Good to know she's safe from evil magic-using teachers. — Devon Monk

Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is. — Chris Sharma

Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts. — J.K. Rowling

Though I do admire many of her ideals, I'm afraid they are all terribly impractical for real life. — E.L. Bates

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel