Depassivation Quotes

#1. For this is Wisdom; to love, to live
To take what fate, or the Gods may give.
To ask no questions, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Spend passion's ebb as you greet its flow
To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!

Laurence Hope

#2. Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

Carlos Fuentes

#3. May my enemies live long so they can see me progress.

Ninja Visser

#4. It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

Henry Petroski

#5. There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card.

Erika Swyler

#6. The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#7. And now, Your Majesty," said Strange, "I think it is time we returned to the Castle. You and I, Your Majesty, are a British King and a British magician. Though Great Britain may desert us, we have no right to desert Great Britain. She may have need of us yet.

Susanna Clarke

#8. 'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Matthew Perry

#9. Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#10. A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal ... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

Sergei Lavrov

#12. Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach.

Ron Baratono