Wednesday Workday Quotes & Sayings

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?
Sometimes it ought to be.
Sometimes it is. — Doris Lessing

As a surgical patient, by means of a local anaesthetic, can look on with a clear consciousness while an operation is being performed upon him and yet feel nothing, I could repeat to myself some favourite lines, or watch my grandfather attempting to talk to Swann about the Duc d'Audriffet-Pasquier, without being able to kindle any emotion from one or amusement from the other. — Marcel Proust

None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy. — Ian McEwan

I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves. — Neil Gaiman

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system. — Elon Musk

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness. — Thomas C. Oden

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly. — Jane Austen

The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content — Hank Quense

The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10). — John Quincy Adams

I'm on his death list, too." "Then why are you still alive?" asked Peter. "Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not a genius and he makes mistakes. — Orson Scott Card

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. — Winston Churchill

IT needs to transform from a big fat silo to the digital fit brain of a modern organization. — Pearl Zhu

Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence. — Natalie Wright

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences. — Rene Guenon

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center. — Bernie Sanders