Calgary Tower Quotes

#1. Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Richard Carlson

#2. Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Herman Melville

#3. There is no evil, Makin," I said. "There's the love of things, power, comfort, sex, and there's what men are willing to do to satisfy those lusts.

Mark Lawrence

#4. I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Alan Bennett

#5. In a dry wind like this, snow and ice can pass directly into the air as a gas without having first melted to water. This process is called sublimation; tonight the snow in the yard and the ice in the creek sublime.

Annie Dillard

#6. I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union ... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

Ibn Arabi

#7. If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries.

Cicely Hamilton

#8. There is a season for everything under the sun - even when we can't see the sun.

Jared Brock

#9. The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

Don McLean

#10. And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you're still there after all these years. If you're having fun, I am, too.

Stephen King

#11. I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.

Marc Faber

#12. You look like Euler's equation, he murmured as he looked me up and down.
Nerd translation: Euler's equation is said to be the most perfect formula ever written. Simple but elegant. Beautiful.

Cynthia Hand

#13. Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Criss Jami

#14. Waiting's exhausting.

Toba Beta

#15. How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Robert Browning