Vuoteen Quotes & Sayings

Then you would have acted to change history, but you would have replaced one history with another. You would not be able to know what past version of history you would have altered, because that history would never have happened. Nor would you be able to know what you had done in the past, or that you had done anything at all in the past, or that you had even been to the past. You would not be able to compare histories in your mind; if you entered the causality violation device knowing this, then you would realize that you would be trading one set of memories for another, and that there would never be any evidence, in your mind or in the world, that you had done this. — Dexter Palmer

his flanks were tucked up with hunger. — Erin Hunter

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft. — Tennessee Williams

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves ... instead of talking to themselves. — William James

What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political argument and in discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally experienced as disturbing. Yet if man lives without truth, life passes him by; ultimately he surrenders the field to whoever is the stronger. "Redemption" in the fullest sense can only consist in the truth becoming recognizable. And it becomes recognizable when God becomes recognizable. He becomes recognizable in Jesus Christ. In Christ, God entered the world and set up the criterion of truth in the midst of history. Truth is outwardly powerless in the world, just as Christ is powerless by the world's standards: he has no legions; he is crucified. Yet in his very powerlessness, he is powerful: only thus, again and again, does truth become power. — Pope Benedict XVI

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. — Shane Koyczan

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure. — Janet Perry

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment. — Kristin Cast

Elections decide which horde of rats gets to gnaw at the bones. — Lyndsay Faye

Six of the young cupbearers were playing some child's game as he entered, sitting in a circle on the floor as they took turns spinning a dagger. When it wobbled to a stop they cut a lock of hair off whichever of them the blade was pointing at. — George R R Martin

Despair is as attractive as cold sores. — David Mitchell

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you. — Rufus Wainwright

I believe mustard to be one of the most amazing condiments. — Justin Timberlake

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern. — Joan Didion

In the middle of the seesaw is a place that never moves. . . . — Terry Pratchett