January 2009 Quotes

Small beginnings of any good thing...are to be cherished and cultivated.
- William Dawson (former Principal of McGill)

It's only natural for people who consider themselves deprived to dislike those who seem to have everything.
- Isaac Asimov (Nemesis)

the simplest explanation is usually the truest.
- Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

A man must know when to retreat from a woman...but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
- Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)

Men really were…inconvenient…at times. The best of them found ways to say exactly the wrong thing at the wrong momet
- Robert Jordan (A Path of Daggers)

…every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit, and the fact of living in society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

A place for everyone and everyone in their place, chosen for them according to their talents and the needs for society.
- Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)

Women did strange things to a man's head.
- Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

Every man had his limits…and a man pushed to them was especially dangerous…
- Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
- Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.
- Stephen King (Wizard and Glass)

Wonders are many, but none,
none is more wonderous than man.
- Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

The Lord helped those who helped themselves.
- Stephen King (The Stand)

…maybe the greatest talent of all is the talent to work.
- Brian McFarlane (Best of the Original Six)

You are safe in any reasonable sense, but no one is absolutely safe.
- Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation)

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

Peter: So I'm sitting in my cubicle today and I realized that ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So it means that every single day you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.

Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?

Peter: Yeah.

Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
- from Office Space

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
- John Denver (Take Me Home, Country Roads)

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.
- Charles Hibbert Tupper

Some praise at morning what they blame at night;
But always think the last opinion right.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part II)

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part II)

She saw the world through the eyes of a child
Yes she's seen it all and she knows they're all lies
- Soul Asylum (Eyes of a Child)

...a woman who had taken a man to her bed always looked at him with that light of ownership in her eyes after.
- Robert Jordan (The Fires of Heaven)

...women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it
- Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.
- Robert Jordan (A Crown of Swords)

Stories have power. Gleeman's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.
- Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)