Domesday Descendants Quotes

#1. You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Josemaria Escriva

#2. The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. I, I am he c who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of d man who dies,

Anonymous

#4. In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.

Mark Boyle

#5. I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature.

Patrick O'Brian

#6. Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

H.L. Mencken

#7. I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks now. There are people who are leaving the universities and working for the government or in think tanks, simply looking for freedom.

Richard Rodriguez

#8. Because love requires context.

Joe Hill

#9. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises,

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#10. Tonight, can we just pretend that you want me too?

N'Zuri Za Austin

#11. ... because you didn't have a choice,
because that's what work is, right?

Mathew Henderson

#12. If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Tom Golisano

#13. I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

Alexander Chee