Tpack Quotes & Sayings

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [ ... ] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. — Roy Spencer

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life. — George R R Martin

And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're doing. And if you take time to share your knowledge with the boys, it'll give them much more than a skill. It'll give them hope. — Deeanne Gist

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks. — John Doar

But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial measures - trances in which the most galling memories, events that seem likely to cripple life for ever, are brushed with a dark wing which rubs their harshness off and gilds them, even the ugliest, and basest, with a lustre, an incandescence? Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? And then what strange powers are these that penetrate our most secret ways and change our most treasured possessions without our willing it? Had Orlando, worn out by the extremity of his suffering, died for a week, and then come to life again? And if so, of what nature is death and of what nature life? — Virginia Woolf

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try! — Piers Anthony

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation. — Paul Krugman

But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist deep in thought because when
I think of you I don't feel so alone — Owl City

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. — Hans Jonas

I'd like to restrain from cruelty and not be thanked." ~ Katsa — Kristin Cashore

I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. — Terry Pratchett

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine. — Dale Carnegie

Every exploration is an appropriation. — Roland Barthes

Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'. — Dada Bhagwan