"To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Stones Quotes #Disgrace Quotes

“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
“Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.”
“I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.”

Source : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.
“Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face,”
“Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.”
“the squeeky wheel gets the grease.”
“The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK
“In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values, and for what we`ve done, which is to take down the Soviet Empire.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com

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