Van Gilder Quotes & Sayings

In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another ... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point. — Bernhard Von Cotta

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. — Nancy B. Brewer

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. — John Dryden

But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know. — J.A. Huss

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right. — Haruki Murakami

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary. — Sue Townsend

...Home is within, that kinda thing. — Shradhdha. S

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today. — Hassan Blasim