Divinatory Quotes

#1. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

Alberto Manguel

#2. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Joseph Conrad

#3. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

Euripides

#4. I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Robert Kagan

#5. Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!

Deyth Banger

#6. What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Samuel Richardson

#7. The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.

Ian Somerhalder

#8. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.

Fanny Crosby

#9. Looking at this house made me crushingly aware that most of my life I'd lived behind the shadow of who my father wished me to be. And all I'd ever longed for was to stand in the sunshine of being loved for who I was.

Mia Sheridan

#10. Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

Herb Goldberg

#11. Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory ... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

John Derbyshire

#15. Hitler's cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering various physical and mental handicaps.

Erik Larson

#16. The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

Guy Kawasaki