Fortunates Quotes

#1. I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone ...

J. E. H. MacDonald

#2. So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

John William Draper

#3. It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them.

Rupert Hart-Davis

#4. I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful ... This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Terence McKenna

#5. Exceptionalism" - the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations - was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics.

Stephen Kinzer

#6. You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
"They said that about all the great visionaries."
"You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

Oscar Wilde

#8. At Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 30 May 1921, fifty whites and two hundred blacks were murdered.

Paul Johnson

#9. I fear more than that the chemical action which would be set up in my soul by a false homage to a symbol behind which are massed twenty centuries of authority and veneration.

James Joyce

#10. I write music. I'm in a band.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#11. Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

Mae West

#12. To have teachable spirit gives you the ability to beat the odds and to achieve your full potential.

Euginia Herlihy

#13. There is no such thing as no chance.

Henry Ford

#14. Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed ...

Shan O' Connor

#15. It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

Daniel Simon

#16. What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

Marion Nestle