Undreaming Quotes

#1. It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.

Iain M. Banks

#2. I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face. The Royal Way (1935)

Andre Malraux

#3. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Amit Ray

#4. Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

Alfred Hershey

#5. There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...

Ouida

#6. I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

Nora Roberts

#7. To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

#9. All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

Lysander Spooner

#10. Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones, wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to see how the physicist's swarming clouds of particles could give rise to the hard-edged world of everyday sight and touch.

James Gleick

#11. Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

Karen Chance

#12. A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#13. Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Robert Green Ingersoll