Best Jonas Blane Quotes

#1. The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.

Albert Pike

#2. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

#3. As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all gain; [...] but neither must we with neo-pagan obscurity of thought imagine it all loss.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Steven Pinker

#6. I just don't want to let go of you tonight. So sue me.

Kahlen Aymes

#7. The usual icing period (where the doctor doesn't come right away but leaves you there to freeze in your paper gown while scraping at the files on the outside of your door making you THINK he is going to come in but he doesn't) ...

Claudine Wolk

#8. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life - a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself.

Thomas Hardy

#9. As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

Lewis Black

#10. Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

Elliott Smith

#11. He thought about telling them of his own single, haunting detail. But he didn't want to add to the horror, and nor did he want to give life to the image while it remained at a distance, held there by wine and companionship.

Ian McEwan

#12. I always liked fog, it lends such a soft, beautifying light to things that otherwise in the broad glare of day would be rude and commonplace.

Nellie Bly

#13. Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Lactantius

#14. I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

Jack White