Amy Jirsa Quotes

#1. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.

Anonymous

#2. I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!

Aesop

#3. He presses his lips to my jaw, to the corner of my mouth, to my ear. "I promise I'll find you again," he whispers. "I promise you I'll remember you. And I promise I'll love you.

Carrie Ryan

#4. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

#5. For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Greg Rucka

#6. It can be so difficult to train up the peasants," she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. "They find it so hard to project the kind of snobbery that comes so naturally to their betters.

Caitlin Crews

#7. Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!

Gabrielle Roth

#8. I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

Jack Vance

#9. A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Michael Bassey

#10. (When McLuhan announced that the medium was the message, he was being arch. The medium is both opposite to, and entwined with, the message.)

James Gleick

#11. When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.

Robert Dallek

#13. After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Albert Camus

#14. At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows

Peter Fryer

#15. The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Chris Morris