Jade Gemstone Quotes

#1. Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.

Mervyn Peake

#2. A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

Thomas Browne

#3. Call me Richard, I love it when you call me Richard.

Julie Ann Walker

#4. When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

Carolyn Hax

#5. I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

Martin Henderson

#6. New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

David Wong

#7. The searing light of morning
Asks unwelcome questions,
Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Scott Hastie

#8. Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

Johannes Kepler

#9. Think if you lent me a razor now, for me to cut my throat with, it would save ever so many steps. Please Your Grace." The Provincara snorted. "Good, Cazaril, good. I do so like a man who doesn't underestimate his situation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. I'll assume that was a compliment." "It wasn't. It definitely wasn't." "Nevertheless, that is what I'll tell myself." "Fine.

L.G. Estrella

#11. To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik