Jack Vance Quotes

'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'

Jack Vance

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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Words
  • Things
  • Write

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• The world is a very abnormal place.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Place
  • Very

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Up
  • Think
  • Times

• The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Home
  • Job
  • America

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • True
  • Football
  • Boys

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Kiss

• Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Husband

• It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Up
  • Men
  • Free

• Alanis Morissette - I think she's one of my biggest inspirations.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • She

• At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • People
  • Girl
  • Desire

• It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Work
  • Claims
  • Responsiveness

• Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opinion

• 'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'

  

  Jack Vance