Curculio Nucum Quotes

#1. I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.

S. Kelley Harrell

#2. The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Jim Thompson

#3. She stared at it. How had they found her? How? She'd changed her name. She'd disappeared. Had they known where she was all along, been watching her all this time? The idea horrified her. That the years of freedom could have been an illusion ...

Anonymous

#4. God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Mother Teresa

#5. We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. "And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'"

Robin Sharma

#7. I wish I could tell you the road from here to where you're going is straight and without obstacles. That is not the truth. The journey to greatness is just not that way.

Kami Guildner

#8. It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain.

J.M. Coetzee

#9. I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian.

Billy Graham

#10. As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.

Willa Cather

#11. I'm going to kill them all - Stanley aka Nine

Pittacus Lore

#12. I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Susan Glaspell

#13. I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

Alfred Rosenberg

#14. What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.

Walter Benjamin

#15. You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there.

Dave Eggers