Saxes Pond Quotes

#1. One cannot afford to be a realist.

Albert Bandura

#2. We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#3. Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.

John Stuart Mill

#4. Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

Ellen J. Barrier

#5. Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
Reverberance of hail upon the dead
Thunder like an exploding crucible!

Allen Tate

#6. The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind ...

Edward Gibbon

#7. It is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

A.S. Byatt

#8. I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#9. Good ideas had in the dark, he thought with a groan, were generally best left there.

Alexandra Bracken