Dagney Pruner Quotes

#1. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

Seneca.

#2. Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

Nate Silver

#3. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

#4. I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.

Akiane Kramarik

#5. The single most efficient change you can make isn't actually upping your daily word count, but eliminating the days where you are not writing.

Rachel Aaron

#6. I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

Trai Byers

#7. If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

Freya Stark

#8. Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Trey Anastasio

#9. Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Megan Whalen Turner

#10. He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Frank Herbert

#11. Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

Ansel Elgort

#12. I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

Jason Robert Brown

#13. I will never forget you,' she whispers, 'and somewhere inside, you'll know.

Tessa Gratton

#14. You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.

Anton Chekhov

#15. In my opinion, no one can save the world ... we can save the ones we care about, the ones nearby, if we're lucky enough to be able to save them in the first place.

Cameron Jace