Wieger Stg Quotes & Sayings

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and blunt the edge of thought; short is the measure of the life in death through which they toil; then are they borne away, like smoke they vanish into air, and what they dream they know is but the little each hath stumbled on in wandering about the world; yet boast they all that they have learned the whole - vain fools! for what that is, no eye hath seen, no ear hath heard, nor can it be conceived by mind of man. Thou, then, since thou hast fallen to this place, shalt know no more than human wisdom may attain. — Empedocles

...and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave. I have been taught accommodation. — Lily Myers

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal. — Kenneth Tynan

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' — Harlan Coben

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They're wrong. ... What comes first is a question, and you're already there. It's not nearly as involved as people make it out to be. — Hope Jahren

God is too gracious to ask you to do something you hate — Max Lucado

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time. — Jim Hodges

I don't think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming] — Newt Gingrich

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers. — Kurt Masur

Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist on nothing more discernible than air. Apparently they also reproduce their kind. What else they do with their time and, for that matter, why, no one has yet made out. — James Agee