Adolf Bastian Quotes

#1. We don't get to choose how we're born, Miranda, and very rarely how we die; but we get to choose how we live. Life is too short to spend in dread and guilt.

Dianne Sylvan

#2. I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma ... I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking ...

Doug Morris

#3. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

#4. Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God's echoes and God is Narcissus.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#5. My biggest beauty tip would be exfoliation, exfoliation, exfoliation! After a lifetime of almost no breakouts, I started having some pretty embarrassing ones and learned that if you don't exfoliate, your skin has a hard time shedding the old skin and therefore clogs your pores and causes zits.

Amanda Crew

#6. What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

Adolf Bastian

#7. As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#8. Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

Donald J. Boudreaux

#9. I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#10. A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.

Adolf Bastian

#11. The cultural infrastructure was buckling and society's veil of sanity was slipping away, exposing its uncharitable Id.

Bobby Adair

#12. I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

William Blake