Eriugena Periphyseon Quotes

#1. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Gertrude Atherton

#2. Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?"
"Of course not, you fool," said Jimmy. "This is politics.

Jeffrey Archer

#4. What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

Walter Russell Mead

#5. Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Camille Paglia

#6. I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

Ronald Reagan

#7. One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

Thomas Sowell