Unexpexted Quotes

#1. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.

Pat Cadigan

#3. It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in.

Peter Singer

#4. In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor

Christopher Priest

#5. I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

M.J. Rose

#6. Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life" - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist

Shashi

#7. Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#8. Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Conrad Black

#9. Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

Jane Austen

#10. Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.

Zack Love

#11. I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#12. In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

Jill Lepore

#13. When higher beings allow us to see them, that's the very moment we begin to be one of them.

Toba Beta

#14. Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

Gichin Funakoshi

#15. Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.

Nirmala Srivastava