“He bested the heroes, killed the defenders, overtook the world. Then he killed the narrator and he was the villain no more.”
- Vijayendra Mohanty
“Ships in harbours are safe, but this is not what ships are for.”
- Lily Silverheart
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
- Richard Bullock
“What is invisible? Everything that matters, except every thing and except matter.”
- John Lloyd
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.”
- Dean Inge
“Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
- John F. Kennedy
“I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
- Mark Twain
“The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.”
- Tom Clancy
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so. ”
- Ferry
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
- Samuel Beckett
“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”
- Edith Wharton
“After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
- Edith Wharton
“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.”
- Unknown
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
- Plato
“All truth is one. In this light may science and religion labor here together for the steady evolution of mankind from darkness to light; from prejudice to tolerance; from narrowness to broadmindedness.”
- Cuthbert W. Pound
“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.”
- G.C. Lichtenberg
“God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If this was the only way they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could they have known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit?”
- Laurie Lynn
“Once every five years everyone chooses to forget what they’ve learned – Democracy in action.”
- The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, Doctor Who
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould