Xicom Quotes & Sayings

Sultan would first jump or throw things at the banana or drag humans by the hand toward it in the hope that they'd help him out, or at least be willing to serve as a footstool. — Frans De Waal

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. — Simone Weil

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it. — Graham Hill

Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon — P.L. Travers

When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. — Peter Senge

That's all true, but I'm not doing it."
Raphael looked incredulous. "Why not?"
The words exploded out of Simon. "Are you kidding me? Because you have never done one single thing for me in the entire time since I became a vampire. Instead you have done your level best to make my life miserable and then end it. So-if you want it in vampire language-it affords me great pleasure, my liege, to say to you now: Hell, no. — Cassandra Clare

{46:27} And as for you, my servant Jacob, you should not be afraid, and you should not dread, O Israel. For behold, I will bring your salvation from afar, and your offspring from the land of your captivity. And Jacob will return and have rest, and he will prosper. And there will be no one who may terrify him. — The Biblescript

Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
However bright your wits
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house. — Marguerite Porete

Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives. — Priscilla Shirer

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes. — Rhianna Pratchett

Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon. — Gustave Flaubert

The dreamer - if you want an exact definition - is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky