Actuates Quotes

#1. An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

Marquis De Lafayette

#2. The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions.

George Murray Levick

#3. Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

Paul Horowitz

#4. But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?

Nicole Krauss

#5. When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

Jacqueline Bisset

#6. You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

Barton Gellman

#8. ... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

John Shirley

#10. Most people will find you much more attractive if you smell like freshly baked cookies rather than Lysol.

Ellen Sandbeck