Flavia Cards Quotes

#1. The dead govern the living.

Auguste Comte

#2. All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Jack Kerouac

#3. It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#5. In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

Joseph Conrad

#6. We can never be gods, after all
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

N.K. Jemisin

#7. She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

Stephen L. Carter

#8. He is remembering," I say.
"Remembering what?"
"It's a word I use for praying. Sometimes it's like waiting for music to come out of the silence.

Francisco X Stork

#9. You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

#11. T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld

#12. My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.

Tim Tebow

#13. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Jane Gardam