Wiseround Quotes

#1. So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#2. All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Kevin Kelly

#3. The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

Shamcey Supsup

#4. It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I'm used to being treated like a mushroom - " "Eh?" Ascher asked. "Kept in the dark and fed bullshit," Binder reported calmly. "Ah.

Jim Butcher

#6. One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Scottie Pippen

#7. Such was the texture of her marble.
[In a description of Laura Trevelyan.]

Patrick White

#8. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
Mother, what was war?

Eve Merriam

#9. Help you? I'd lick you, and most girls would want to marry you if you so much as talked to them.

Missy Lyons

#10. Why do you have to do all this after attaining a jhana? Jhana is like a juggling act. You keep things suspended in the air or balanced. Then you drop them. Then you start over.

Henepola Gunaratana

#11. And what is the greatest number? Number one.

David Hume

#12. One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Guru Nanak