Umarzubar2017 Quotes & Sayings

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton

For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles. — Thomas Aquinas

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. — Brian Tracy

Waiting for God"


This morning I breathed in. It had rained
early and the sycamore leaves tapped
a few drops that remained, while waving
the air's memory back and forth
over the lawn and into our open
window. Then I breathed out.

This deliberate day eased
past the calendar and waited. Patiently
the sun instructed the shadows how to move;
it held them, guided their gradual defining.
In the great quiet I carried my life on,
in again, out again. — William Stafford

How did I get into this mess? Miles isn't even here. -Ivan — Lois McMaster Bujold

But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative ... Nothing could be without its opposite bound up with it. Could space exist in a building without objects that stopped it? Could energy exist without matter, or matter without energy? Matter and energy, the inert and the active, once considered opposites, were now known to be one. — Patricia Highsmith

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. — J. Lynn

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

The flower, as he saw it, ruled over evil; it absorbed in itself all innocently shed blood (that is why it is so red) all tears and all the gall of humanity. It was an awful and mysterious being, the antitheses of God, an Ahriman presenting a most unassuming and innocent appearance. It was necessary to break it off and kill it. But this was not all; it was also necessary not to permit it at its death to discharge its evil upon the world. — Vsevolod Garshin

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be. — Muriel Barbery

It was the worst hurt he had ever known. — Jack London