Devalued And Dispensable Quotes

#1. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#2. This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

John Piper

#4. Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Leonard Mlodinow

#5. To hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

Peter Ackroyd

#7. To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

Chuck Schumer

#8. It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Diane De Poitiers

#9. It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.

Melissa Marr

#10. While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Aaron Sorkin

#11. It's what you don't say, I hear the loudest

S.L. Northey

#12. I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

Rick Riordan

#13. There might be some of them that don't care. To me, it's important that my fans know how much I appreciate them.

Aaron Watson

#14. I never feel like laughing when things are funny," he said. "I just think to myself, 'Now, that's funny.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut