Zmirarts Quotes & Sayings

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. — Owen Feltham

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood — Natasha Trethewey

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. — J.K. Rowling

It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will. — Rae Carson

To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith. — James Cook

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it. — Larry Ellison

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite. — Geraldine Brooks

Her honey-blonde hair is strewn across her face as she sways her head. She's working a red sequined bikini separated by a tan, flat stomach, and a butterfly tattoo resting on her left hip. Her legs are clad in black fishnets that run into a pair of white-heeled boots - still a knockout. — Kevin James Moore

Culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas. — James Davison Hunter

Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice - that's what it is - they are all full of malice, malice! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman

My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit. — Julian Barnes

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. — Emile Zola

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of. — Gary Cole