Yairsoft Quotes & Sayings

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. — Tucker Max

There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out. — Hugh Howey

For years, the Pacific had been trying to get basic assistance in the synthetics field from the Reich. However, the big German chemical cartels, I. G. Farben in particular, had harbored their patents; had, in fact, created a world monopoly in plastics, especially in the developments of the polyesters. By this means, Reich trade had kept an edge over Pacific trade, and in technology the Reich was at least ten years ahead. The interplanetary rockets leaving Festung Europa consisted mainly of heat-resistant plastics, very light in weight, so hard they survived even major meteor impact. The Pacific had nothing of this sort; natural fibers such as wood were still used, and of course the ubiquitous pot metals. — Philip K. Dick

Though here his voice faltered, because he knew as well as she did what came next, what words came next. If he could speak them, he might even convince her they were true, as his father had convinced his mother that Browning summer. It was the worst lie there was, imprisoning and ultimately embittering the hearer, playing upon her terrible need to believe. He could feel the I love you forming on his lips. Would he have said it if she hadn't interrupted? — Richard Russo

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to. — Yasmin Mogahed

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. — Harvey Milk

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder. — Sylvester Stallone

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation. — Tony Rothman

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. — Robert Wyatt

Science works through replication, rectification and modification. But when it comes to religion, people simply tend to accept the theoretical preachers and their claims of historical God experiences without a single question. If there has been one experience in this world in any branch of knowledge, it absolutely follows that that experience will be repeated eternally. If they are not repeated through natural processes, the thinking humanity would have no way but to disprove that such an experience ever occurred in the history. — Abhijit Naskar

There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. — Jonathan Franzen

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling
settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. — Billy Graham

TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67 — Kahlil Gibran

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile. — Wayne Kramer