Schwesta Ewa Quotes

#1. The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Elon Musk

#2. The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Blaise Pascal

#3. He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

Hilary Mantel

#4. All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Birdy

#6. Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

#7. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

E. M. Forster

#8. Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Antonia Fraser

#10. I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Evangeline Lilly

#11. Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance ... the taproot ... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation ... is the hatred of truth ... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

Dean Koontz

#12. Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.

Sue Leaf

#13. In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

#14. I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Gloria Vanderbilt