Subsidence Quotes

#1. Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#2. Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

Ramana Maharshi

#3. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#4. Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out.

James Dwight Dana

#5. You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#6. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.

Vikram Seth

#7. You should've mentioned you were bringing a beautiful woman. I would've combed my hair.

Lisa Kessler

#8. I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world ... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

Jimmy Cliff

#9. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

John Le Carre

#12. Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Julian Assange

#13. Fantasies are the escape that every prisoner of the soul indulges in.

Manoj Vaz

#14. Happiness thinks only of itself.

Raymond Radiguet