Walking Escalator Quotes & Sayings

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet

You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false. — Paul Graham

Poqerty is the worst form of violence — Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.
But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator. — Jim Butcher

Consciousness is the basis of both the examined and the unexamined life. — Sam Harris

We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want
to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today. — Michelle Rempel

The greatest ideas are the simplest. — William Golding

It was a tough movie to make, with lots of stunts and injuries and craziness and night shooting and dust. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day ... — Jan Morris

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. — Amy Waldman

It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him. — C.S. Lewis

She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another. — Halldor Laxness