Trounces Quotes & Sayings

I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks. — Charles Stross

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight. — Timothy Garton Ash

It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it. — Margaret Atwood

The financial game is a team sport. God established a covenant with Noah after the flood, and later he established a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is an agreement between two parties. In order to prosper, you must establish what I call a "carevenant" with your family — Celso Cukierkorn

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.] — George Herbert

I believe the gun has no power at all. — Malala Yousafzai

Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator. — Edward Abbey

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine. — Andrew Garfield

You think I'm a part of the Magicus Mundi?"
"You are telling me you're not? That being the new Lilith means nothing? That it's a human thing?"
"It's the quintessential human thing," Sylvie said. "The ability to say fuck you. — Lyn Benedict

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke. — Haile Gebrselassie

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility. — Naveen Jain

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche