Anachronistically Define Quotes

#1. For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Susanna Clarke

#2. Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

George Santayana

#3. It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

Yelawolf

#4. For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.

W.B.Yeats

#5. None of us are saints. We can all do better.

Marie Lu

#6. All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

John Madden

#8. Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Gail Carson Levine

#9. The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#10. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Steve Erickson

#11. I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#12. There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

Virginia Satir