Techstone Quotes

#1. Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

James Russell Lowell

#2. I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Anthony Burgess

#3. The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Warren Buffett

#4. If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#5. Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

#6. I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

Roald Dahl

#7. Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.

Douglas Rushkoff

#8. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama

#9. We have learned that it is better to live with one leg than to spend your life on your knees.

Gregory A. Freeman

#10. At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

Gabriela Mistral

#11. Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. It is not the rights of women to occupy "official" ministerial roles, nor their equality to men in those roles, that set the terms of their service to God and their neighbors. It is their obligations that do so - obligations that derive from their human abilities empowered by divine gifting.

Alan F. Johnson

#13. Because it was frightening, they swept it quickly from their minds.

Stephen King