Zivast Quotes & Sayings

I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse. — Julia Golding

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that. — Mark Vonnegut

Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny. — Diana Gabaldon

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite! — Fanny Burney

And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy who had once written poetry in the outside world and was therefore nicknamed The Poet. And another old man - or was it the same one? - lived in the transit camp of Vtoraya Rechka, waiting to be shipped to Kolyma, and was thought by many people to be Osip Mandelstam - which, for all I know, he may have been. That is all I have been able to find out about the last days, illness and death of Mandelstam. Others know very much less about the death of their dear ones. — Nadezhda Mandelstam

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere. — Donald Miller

When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life. — George Dyson

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. — Keith Donohue

It's against reason," said Filby.
"What reason?" said the Time Traveller. — H.G.Wells

You feel rain in a used bookstore. The old pages pick up the damp and mustiness like old bones do rheumatism. — Josh Lanyon

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! - all are passing! - all is past! — Elizabeth Gaskell

As you grow older, don't let the changing colour of your clothes compensate for the brilliance of your character. — Myself

Then you pick up and go on," she told him simply. "You're only a victim if you choose to be. — Nora Roberts

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed. — Lloyd Alexander