Dan Fante Quotes

#1. That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too.

Ann Simko

#2. He had begun to fear her presence during the afternoon dismantling. He had to remove it, or she would be with him every time he approached a fuze. He would be pregnant with her.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well. We know how to put number one first.

Dan Fante

#4. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Buddha

#5. People from Eastern Islamic cultures generally assess truth through lines of authority, not individual reasoning.

Nabeel Qureshi

#6. I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

Dan Fante

#7. What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.

Dan Fante

#8. It might be worse, and then again it might be a good deal better.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. ...man can survive ...he can kill and be twisted and broken and desperate and insane and fuck barnyard pets in the dark and wear a dress if he chooses, and hate and destroy everything that's beautiful, and wish for death for himself and others with every breath, and still be a perfect child of God.

Dan Fante

#10. The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Walter Scott

#11. Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. I think my strength comes from being an insane drunk. Near death. Wanting death like a lover every day for years. My talent comes from madness - having survived madness.

Dan Fante

#13. Your employees are your company's real competitive advantage. They're the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Richard Branson

#14. When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

Billy Graham

#15. no wonder i let queers suck my cock

Dan Fante

#16. Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. It is difficult to accept but no less true: If fear is winning in our lives, it is because we simply keep choosing it over our other impulses to be strong or bold or great.

Brendon Burchard

#18. I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

Roger Daltrey

#19. Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

Susan Cooper

#20. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi