Commander Keen Quotes

#1. What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Edward Abbey

#2. The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Benjamin Tucker

#3. The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world ... is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.

Billy Graham

#4. As her students were dying, she was supposed to teach them that they were blessed to be North Korean.

Barbara Demick

#5. They all stared at him in mute agreement. Intelligence and kindness in their stares. No one would misbehave.

D.K. Cassidy

#6. if you walk the straight and narrow, they can never blackmail you or coerce you into doing something you don't agree with.

Sidney Halston

#7. It is important that we are occasionally, perhaps even frequently, depressed by books, challenged by films, shocked by paintings, maybe even disturbed by music. But do they have to do all these things all the time? Can't we let them console, uplift, inspire, move, cheer?

Nick Hornby

#8. To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.

Theodor Mommsen

#9. I had to put the word out to people that I didn't cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at home. Because that's the assumption: "Well, he lives in America now, we can't afford him, we won't bother."

Guy Pearce

#10. Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. The soul that knows it soul is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Avinash Persaud

#13. I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.

David Levithan