Absolute Midnight Quotes

#1. In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

James Henry Breasted

#2. Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Howard G. Hendricks

#3. Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.

Steven Erikson

#4. What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#5. Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Clive Barker

#6. Love sees all; hate is blind.

Janet Morris

#7. You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.

Clive Barker

#8. If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

John Cusack

#9. Sometimes it is difficult to realize or hear our own prejudices and own up to their existence. Admitting there is a problem is the first step to recovery.

Thomas Hodge

#10. Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

Chris Matthews

#12. The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Archibald MacLeish

#13. My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

John R. Leopold

#14. They stared each other down, and while the dorky eleven-year-old in my soul kind of hoped that two hot boys might fight over me, the rational, seventeen-year-old knew that Archer need to get out of here, fast.

Rachel Hawkins

#15. ...I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!

Carrie Fisher

#16. Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ...

Clive Barker

#17. I don't need to believe in the supernatural, not when there's worse that roams the night.

Sabaa Tahir

#18. Students generally liked the idea of grouping majors into areas of interest to help organize their thinking about potential paths.

Thomas R. Bailey

#19. Silence can be as irrepressible as laughter. And it can accumulate, like weightless snowflakes. It can collapse a ceiling. "I'm not sure," Julia said. Jacob

Jonathan Safran Foer