Empress Of A Thousand Skies Quotes

#1. I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.

Rumi

#2. He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Hesiod

#3. Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Bill Moyers

#4. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.

Charlton Heston

#5. It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

Thom Yorke

#6. He talks about how the word "no" should be the "end of the discussion, not the beginning of a negotiation.

Amy Poehler

#7. Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded.

Elie Wiesel

#9. Everything's uglier close up

John Green

#10. The only proof that it is like something to be you at this moment is the fact (obvious only to you) that it is like something to be you.

Sam Harris

#11. 'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

#12. Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.

L.J.Smith

#13. What had he said about machines?"
Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.

David Lagercrantz

#14. The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#15. But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.

Sharon Creech