Artaserse Quotes

#1. The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

Gustave Flaubert

#2. You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you're not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all.

Jonathan Tropper

#3. Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

Nancy Gibbs

#4. The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Wilbur Smith

#5. After you were born, someone turned on a tap. At first it was only a drip, a black drip, and I felt it as sadness. I had felt sad before ... who hasn't ? I knew what it was like. But I didn't know that it would come like that, for no reason. I lived with it for weeks.

Jerry Pinto

#6. You're a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

Debbie Ford

#8. We can face things which we know to be dangerous if they don't look or sound too dangerous; our real trouble is often with things we know to be safe but which look dreadful.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johann Georg Hamann

#10. When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

Lennox Lewis

#11. The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

Joseph Parker

#12. Whore or courtesan, she put on a great little show.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce