Villanella Babylon Quotes & Sayings

Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly. — Stuart Chase

It had stopped raining but the sky was thick with clouds and the wind was growing stronger, scented with more rain to come. — Erin Hunter

She trusted him to break them out, and he trusted her to pick up a gun and fight by his side. They'd break free, and then they'd have an entire lifetime of adventures ahead of them. It was everything she'd ever wanted, except that even in her wildest dreams, she'd failed to imagine a man as cool and sexy and brave as Shane. You're a bunch of losers, she informed her imaginary boyfriends - imaginary ex-boyfriends, now. It never even occurred to me to have any of you turn into a panther. — Zoe Chant

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on. — Joan Rivers

There really is something irresistible about a lost cause. — Stephenie Meyer

The meritocracy offered liberation from the unjust hierarchies of race, gender, and sexual orientation, but swapped in their place a new hierarchy based on the notion that people are deeply unequal in ability and drive. — Christopher L. Hayes

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more. — Michel Houellebecq

You're going to break my heart, Sparrow Fisher. And I think, Not before you break mine. — Willow Aster

His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them. — Robert Harris

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word. — Ann Brashares

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas. — Nolan Bushnell

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't. — Henry Rollins