Umbras Musings Quotes & Sayings

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. — Thich Nhat Hanh

What you believe about you impacts you more than what others believe about you. — Bill Bartmann

Herlia, goddess of justice, weeping as she passes her first judgement (...) She fell in love with a mortal man, but his passion for her drove him to commit a terrible crime and so she judged him, consigning him to the depths of the earth, chained to a rock, where his flesh is eternally eaten by vermin (...) Indeed, he stole a magic sword and with it slew a god, thinking him a rival for her affections. In fact he was her brother, Ixtus, god of dreams. now, whenever we suffer nightmares it is the shade of the fallen god taking his revenge on mortal kind. — Anthony Ryan

It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something, — Casey Legler

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows — Kin Hubbard

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful. — Rudy Giuliani

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do. — Cheryl Hayashi