Adrift Steven Callahan Quotes

#1. Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#2. The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

William Ritter

#3. Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Terry Pratchett

#4. In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

George W. Bush

#5. I love you more than she does, cocaine whispers.

Mary Elizabeth

#6. They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.

Hosho McCreesh

#7. But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

Mark Edmundson

#9. Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Hugo Weaving

#10. I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Bradford Cox

#11. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12. It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when they asked me to be a part of it, I tried it, and I really like it. My favorite's the peanut butter and chocolate.

Ashley Tisdale

#13. [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

Boyd Rice

#15. Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Michel Faber