Uqbar Borges Quotes & Sayings

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. — Jorge Luis Borges

Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man. — Jorge Luis Borges

These tiny groups that make us feel loved and save and part of something even on our loneliest nights when we stumble home to our computers - partnerless, tired, awake. We won't have those next year. We won't live on the same block as all our friends. We won't have a bunch of group texts.
This scares me. More than finding the right job or city or spouse, I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. This feeling I feel right now. — Marina Keegan

No people can be truly happy ... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences — William Penn

I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.' — Jodi Benson

You want us to bargain with a lizard?"
"They're not lizards, Father. They're extraordinary creatures who were
here long before any human was crawling on this earth. They are warriors
and scholars and - "
"He has long hair like a woman," one of Sigmar's sons blathered — G.A. Aiken

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight. — Madeleine Albright

It's a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more. — Venus Williams

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. — Eric Topol

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one. — Joshua Leonard

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?"
"It's like being on vactaion. all of the time. — Gerard Way

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true. — Patricia Arquette

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day. — Jodelle Ferland

I believe that there is only one kind of love - real love - trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life. — Sharon Salzberg

The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had! — Steven Furtick

Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other problems, then watch out, because you're on a road that can end with fascism. — C.J. Sansom