Counterweights Crane Quotes

#1. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.

Napoleon Hill

#2. Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

Rudolf Steiner

#3. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Charles Farrar Browne

#4. Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Richelle Mead

#5. The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Edward Jenks

#6. The past is always an invented land.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. A young Harvard student, traveled west to Oklahoma to live among the Kiowa and participate in the solemn rites of the peyote cult. In one photograph the land appears as a blur of dust, the sky fading to gray, the air darkened by soil worked loose by the wind, the farmhouses

Wade Davis