Velamen Roots Quotes & Sayings

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden

The German passion for bureaucracy
for written and signal forms ... to move about, to work, to exist
is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect ... — Janet Flanner

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much, — William Shakespeare

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. — Veronica Roth

In the end, we begin. — A.D. Posey

The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not. — Jeffrey Lurie

If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world. — Alva Noe

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan. — Stephen Kinzer

You can trust bad liars. — Toba Beta

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself. — Jean Racine

Love for each other is always there.
Open your heart, feel it, it will get better. — Debasish Mridha

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact. — Raymond Loewy

Blue bead on the wick,
there's that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god. — Denise Levertov

If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar? — Paul Kalanithi