Quotes - Winifred Stroup (Parsonsfield, ME) Showing 1-30 of 228

#1

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4332 likes

#2

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

1739 likes

#3

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#4

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

1599 likes

#5

“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

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#6

“As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!”
― Sheri S. Tepper, A Plague of Angels

tags: language, vocabulary

49 likes

#7

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

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#8

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148659 likes

#9

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#10

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion

1565 likes

#11

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

1836 likes

#12

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#14

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#15

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#16

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

2950 likes

#17

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#18

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

tags: end-of-the-world, funny, tintin

1211 likes

#19

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2606 likes

#20

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

1629 likes

#21

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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