Amphiptere Quotes

#1. The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Pliny The Elder

#2. I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Albert Camus

#3. Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

Joseph Stalin

#4. Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

Louise Gluck

#5. To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#6. Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

Finn Jones

#7. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves ... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

Malcolm X

#8. I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, the pondering, of men and women of all the ages accumulated together under one roof to which we can have access as our needs require.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

Aasif Mandvi

#10. I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

Liza Minnelli

#11. Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago - it's all just three inches lower.

Ken Follett

#12. Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

Confucius

#13. A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.

Richard Rohr

#14. Love brought its tail of pains,
its long static beam of thorns,
and we close our eyes so that nothing,
so that no wound will separate us.

Pablo Neruda

#15. But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.

Donald Miller

#16. One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz

Joe Abercrombie