Malakand Agency Quotes

#1. Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman:

Helen Macdonald

#2. We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

William James

#3. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

Caryl Phillips

#4. The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.

Gregory Benford

#5. Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Joel Spolsky

#6. So Lily's mouth would open and nothing would come out, then Louisa would start rattling on about meeting her grandmother or whether she had eaten something and she had realized she was on her own.

Jojo Moyes

#7. I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

John Scofield

#8. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Amy Tan

#9. I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

Jim Lehrer

#10. Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Terry Pratchett

#11. The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

Rajneesh

#12. To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

Alison Pill

#13. The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).

Ayn Rand

#14. You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Harvey Diamond