Timesharing 2000 Quotes & Sayings

The morning was so damp and misty — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Capitalism's grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology's imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status ["On the Future of the Left," Motherboard, February 4, 2015]. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man
the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. — Henry Fielding

You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'
I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.'
That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky. — Marcel Proust

Don't rush to fellowship at the church, temple or mosque if you don't do so at the house - first. "Charity begins at home". — T.F. Hodge

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry. — F Scott Fitzgerald

hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night! — Kenny Werner

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. — Barbara De Angelis

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster? — Barbara W. Tuchman

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. — Arthur C. Clarke

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. — Eli Roth

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us. — Caspar David Friedrich

Leave everything you do, every place you go, everything you touch a little better for your having been there. — Julie Andrews