Bodmer Papyri Quotes

#1. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Amory Lovins

#2. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

James Joyce

#3. Religion is a mixed blessing.

John Shelby Spong

#4. We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?

Veronica Roth

#5. The big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty

Louisa May Alcott

#6. I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

#7. Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

#8. When the confusion of accusations and excuses, of desires and fears, makes everything with us so obscure, he sees quite clearly into all our secrets. And at the heart of them all he finds a name which he himself has inscribed: Jesus Christ.

Eric Metaxas

#9. What are you? (Zarek)
I'm a nymph. (Astrid)
I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

George Vancouver

#11. a sour lozenge on my tongue.

A.L. Sonnichsen