Bitter End Provisions Quotes

#1. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#2. Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!"
"Working on it," she shouted back.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Rosa Parks

#4. The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Lev Vygotsky

#5. Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith.

Norman Davies

#6. If you can fall in love, then you can love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Ilka Chase

#8. Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold.

Wynne Channing

#9. Books are often far more than just books.

Roxane Gay

#10. When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

#11. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Jayne Anne Phillips