331 Quotes

#1. Our friends have left us
Perhaps we never saw them, perhaps
we encountered them when sleep
still brought us very close to the breathing wave
perhaps we search for them because we search for the other life,
beyond the statues.

Giorgos Seferis

#2. Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Ivan Turgenev

#3. I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. (Brewster 1860, p. 331)

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

Richard Baxter

#6. I'm not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.

Rahul Kanakia

#7. American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Jim DeMint

#8. There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Otto Von Bismarck

#9. Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. For one ridiculous moment she considered changing into something sexier - at least from the waist up, as that was all he'd see on his camera - but decided not to bother. Logan had fallen in love with her in striped T-shirts and jeans. There was no need to mess with a winning formula.

Rob Thomas

#11. He has many things I haven't got," said Jace. "Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination."
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Cassandra Clare

#12. WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

John Irving

#13. If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Timothy Keller

#14. If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.

Anthony Liccione

#15. There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War.

Hiroya Oku

#16. Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)

Charles Stross

#17. You open the gates of the soul to let the dark flood of chaos flow into your order and meaning. If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness.

C. G. Jung

#18. To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. He picks up his dates in a van? No wonder he's such a hit with the ladies."
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Cassandra Clare

#20. Portland, Maine was the site of one of the northernmost battles of the Civil War.

Hank Bracker

#21. We waste all our money throwing dice, trying to get close to Luck, trying to get the big win ... To help us find something we can keep for ourselves.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#22. Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The

Thomas Hardy