Glacial Pace Quotes

#1. Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

James Balog

#2. Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

Padgett Powell

#3. It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

Adyashanti

#4. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Francis Bacon

#5. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

Nick Hornby

#6. This was exhausting. If she was going to make this kind of emotional investment in someone, he should at least be a proper boyfriend. But for a casual fling? She could drive herself crazy.

Lauren Weisberger

#7. Wine o'clock was getting earlier every night

Jill Pennington

#8. In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Donald G. Mitchell

#9. I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else."
"Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes, it's been in your mouth, sweetheart.

J. Lynn

#11. People who felt scared or desperate enough could do almost anything, even things that are extremely out of their character to do; things that are not natural to them. When it came to the human condition, it only took one small spark to light an inferno.

J.M. Northup