Alf Engen Quotes

#1. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

Eric Johnston

#2. The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.

Andrae Crouch

#3. Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book.

Billy Horschel

#5. Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#6. We cannot fail in following nature.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.

W.G. Sebald

#9. I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

Harry Lennix

#10. If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.

Steve Maraboli

#11. The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Angela Carter

#12. It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.

John Le Carre

#13. When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

Ruth Ozeki

#14. One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery