Winterman 2020 Quotes & Sayings

By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada. — Ryan Boudinot

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world. — Ramana Maharshi

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. — Robert Smith

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once. — Colleen Hoover

I just think - '
'Don't think. If you think, you'll never truly get over her. Thinking just extends things.'
So I decided not to think. — Danny Wallace

No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his.
Ever. — Karen Hawkins

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased) — Patrick Rothfuss

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut — Jonathan Schell

Without rich people who want it done now, who would animate the free world? In theory, you want everyone to live peacefully according to their needs, along the banks of a river. In fact, you worry that you'd die of boredom there. In fact, you get a buzz from someone like Carole Potter, who keeps prize chickens and could teach a graduate course in landscaping; who maintains a staff of four (more in the summers, during High Guest Season); a handsome, slightly ridiculous husband; a beautiful daughter at Harvard and an incorrigible son doing something or other on Bondi Beach; Carole who is charming and self-deprecating and capable, if pushed, of a hostile indifference crueler than any form of rage; who reads novels and goes to movies and theater and yes, yes, bless her, buys art, serious art, about which she actually fucking knows a thing or two. — Michael Cunningham

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing
and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good
but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad. — William Pepperell Montague

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it. — Brian Kobilka