Vrda Vegas Quotes & Sayings

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted. — Carl Safina

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things ... " she held up four big-knuckled fingers. " ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing ... " She closed her fingers into a fist. " ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! — Frank Herbert

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it. — Doris Lessing

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

Right now I'm wearing an illegal smile. — Waseem Latif

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed. — Casey Stengel

The Life we have is very great.
The Life that we shall see
Surpasses it, we know, because
It is Infinity,
But when all Space has been beheld
And all Dominion shown
The smallest Human Heart's extent
Reduces it to none. — Emily Dickinson

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative
useless synonyms for good or for bad. — C.S. Lewis

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. — Freeman Dyson

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be. — Carl Sagan

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. — George Orwell

I really like cable T.V. — Sally Field

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed. — Marilyn Monroe

My superhero name should be Density Girl. — Gini Koch