Wakethewitches Quotes & Sayings

We build toys. Some of those toys change the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I looked for flaws in everyone I encountered, I'd find them one hundred percent of the time, and I'd always be disappointed. — Linda Kage

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him. — C.S. Lewis

She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn't a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past. — Renita D'Silva

Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state. — Richard Hamming

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive. — Albert Einstein

This I saw myself, and I found it greater than words can say. For if one should put together and reckon up all the buildings and all the great works produced by Hellenes, they would prove to be inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth, though it is true that both the temple at Ephesos and that at Samos are works worthy of note. The pyramids also were greater than words can say, and each one of them is equal to many works of the Hellenes, great as they may be; but the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. — Herodotus

A life of leisure destroys a child. When — Daniel Black

No matter how much I want to scream at him and make him leave, I find myself wishing he could squeeze me just a little bit tighter. I want him to lock his arms around me and throw away the key, because this is where he belongs and I'm scared he'll just let me go again. — Colleen Hoover

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder. — Christy Hall

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue. — Al Franken

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. — Edmund Burke

I've been largely undecided about everything for most of my life. I can barely commit to a phone bill ... Somewhere along the line it has become my career due to continuing work. — Robert Sheehan