Carina Nebula Quotes

#1. Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

Denham Sutcliffe

#3. You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Philip Roth

#4. This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him.

Zadie Smith

#5. What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

Sylvia Plath

#6. The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.

What about love? Where does that fit in?

Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

Peter Milligan

#7. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?

Charles Lee

#8. Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period,

Marian Keyes

#9. God does not ask us to carry burdens. He does not ask us to save the world. He does not ask us to come up with a plan. He simply asks us to 'come'.

Emily P. Freeman

#10. A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Michael Polanyi

#11. He gives me a despondent look, his eyes red, hopeless. The man I came to love is broken, lost, but I've fallen for him so deeply, I know exactly where to find him in his darkness. It's where I was before.

Alexandra Iff

#12. The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. Do you want any soup?"
"No," said Jace.
"Do you think Hodge will want any soup?"
"No one wants any soup."
"I want some soup," Simon said.
"No you dont," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

Anna Meredith