Cruel Wonders Quotes

#1. I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

John O'Donohue

#3. Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

James Surowiecki

#4. There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

Gijs De Vries

#5. When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Peter Max

#6. I didn't really like being on television at all.

Natalia Kills

#7. Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.

Grace Steele Woodward

#8. He was as happy as a pup on Christmas morning, as a maid on her wedding night, as a wolf before his bloody red supper.

Daniel Polansky

#9. I've always liked SyFy.

Lance Henriksen

#10. The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

Edwin Land

#11. The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

Billy Graham

#12. I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

S.A. Tawks

#13. Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.

Rajneesh

#14. And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Maurice Sendak

#15. It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.

Lemony Snicket

#16. A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

Marc Forne Molne