Varse Quotes

#1. If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Harvey MacKay

#2. When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Life blackens at the contact of truth.

Paul Valery

#4. Do this all day long: run through a mental checklist that changes unpredictably. Of course I have things written down, but nurses spend the shift recalibrating the tasks we have and their urgency.

Theresa Brown

#5. Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Chuck Wendig

#6. That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.

Peter Kreeft

#8. Because these papyri transport ideas," he replied. "And ideas have power.

Paulo Coelho

#9. She felt weary and careworn, in the way one often does before the big job of work is tackled; that sense of premature or projected exhaustion that is the breeding ground of all procrastination.

William Boyd

#10. Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

Henry George

#11. I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

Eoin Colfer

#12. An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson