Charles Stross Quotes

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Charles Stross

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• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Part
  • Resistance

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I certainly didn't have a nanny.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Certainly
  • Nanny

• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Future
  • Tomorrow

• I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Career
  • Tennis
  • Outside

• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Morals

• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Words
  • English

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Reality
  • Science

• We assert-and on the basis of the most recent socialist literature that you cannot deny-that the real history of capitalism is only now beginning, because capitalism is not just a system of oppression; it also represents a choice of value,…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Real
  • History
  • Value

• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Earth

• We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • American
  • History
  • Period

• I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Time

• There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Color

• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Art
  • Woman

• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • True
  • Words

• I barely leave my cage, my house.

  

  Kim Coates
  • House

• If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

  

  Charles Stross