Alkonost Mythology Quotes

#1. When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Henry Twells

#2. Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

Elliott Abrams

#4. If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Lao-Tzu

#5. Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Plato

#6. Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Honore De Balzac

#7. All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

Patrick DeWitt