Translated By Rosamund Bartlett Quotes & Sayings

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth. — Jean-Baptiste Say

That night, the sky poured out such torrents that the city was a drum set, every surface a source of rhythms, pavements and windows and canvas awnings, street signs and parked cars, Dumpsters throbbing like tom-toms, garbage-can lids swishing as the wind swirled bursts of rain in imitation of a drummer brush-stroking the batter head of a snare. — Dean Koontz

There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself. — Ray Torres

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware. Our hardware is evolving at the speed of light, while we are still the product, for the most part, of unskilled labor. But there is another argument against the need to implant computing devices, be they glass or goo. It's a very simple one, so simple that some have difficulty grasping it. It has to do with a certain archaic distinction we still tend to make, a distinction between computing and "the world." Between, if you like, the virtual and the real. I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't. — William Gibson

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious? — Ashwin Sanghi

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. — Lord Byron

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free. — Lauren DeStefano

For the first time, she was feeling him; finally seeing him in the light like he wanted her to. — Mesha Mesh

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover? — Phil Donahue

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself — Heinrich Neuhaus

I am, therefore I am confused. — Derick Hudson

I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected. — Rankin

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. — Heraclitus

And then there were books, and more books, and yet more books - until everything we had wanted Christmas to be seemed present in the dead of those cold winters. — Joseph Bottum

Do we say that one must never willingly do wrong, or does it depend upon the circumstances? Is it true, as we have often agreed before, that there is no sense in which wrongdoing is good or honourable? Or have we jettisoned all our former convictions in these last few days? Can you and I at our age, Crito, have spent all these years in serious discussions without realizing that we were no better than a pair of children? Surely the truth is just what we have always said. Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative in pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonourable for the person who does it. — Socrates