Vanyen Quotes & Sayings

The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain - the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out the light in the man's eye and the light of learning too, for who can reason if Oxford is a giant puddle and Cambridge is washing away downstream, and who will enforce the laws if the judges are swimming for their lives? — Hilary Mantel

Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them. — Andrea Seigel

Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses? — Jodi Picoult

It might be hard to be new when everyone else belongs. — Ally Condie

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent. — Mahatma Gandhi

When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. — William Booth

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up. — Albert Camus

The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind. — Victoria Aveyard

But no matter how hard I try, I still yearn for
hugs/kisses/smiles/a hand to hold. — Sarah Tregay

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. — Todd Gitlin

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually. — Edgar Cayce

We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But eventually, our true natures win out. You never could have been someone else for long, even if you tried. It would have broken you — Jeanette Murray

Whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't — Jodi Picoult

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. — Joseph Conrad