Zereos Quotes & Sayings

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick. — Ursula K. Le Guin

So ... why is your brother mean to girls?"
"Because," said Michael from the doorway, "I have three younger brothers who think it's hilarious to parade jailbait through here on a daily basis."
His tone was enough to make her glad she'd worn the pullover into the house. "No one told me there was a parade," she said acidly. "And here I forgot my banner. — Brigid Kemmerer

there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together. — Helen Simpson

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow. — Phillip Thomas

Now you know where I got my name. — Stokely Carmichael

I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it. — Darrell Wallace Jr.

In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.13 — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light. — Sam Ewing

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales," she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. "Because your pitch could use some work. — Caitlin Crews

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos. — John Gruber

Birthed in a riotous sea of heat and violence, this world was never good, never peaceful, never without suffering, pain and anxiety. There was never an armistice between all living and not-so living things, nor can evidence be found to suggest there ever was - or still is - a loosely balanced war tumbling across Creation with the advantage swinging between the forces of light and happiness, and those of darkness and misery. Fire has always burned flesh, water has always drowned babies, and Creation has only ever exhibited but one impulse, one motive, one direction: towards increasing complexity, where complexity - across all systems, animate and inanimate - corresponds precisely to the degree and depth of potential suffering available to those contingent things whose participation in Creation was never solicited. — John Zande

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak. — Alexey Miller

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. — Tomie DePaola

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip. — Robert Kiyosaki

I told her I don't think grief is a price we pay for love, but rather that it is a part of love. When death comes, I think the grief is to be experienced the way the joy was experienced before - and if we experience it intimately, grief and joy are not separate, and both are love. — Barry Graham