Gordian Nathaniel Pierce Quotes

#1. The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise - Foma

Sergei Lukyanenko

#2. I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.

Kim Harrison

#3. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

Thomas Merton

#4. Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Jose Saramago

#5. One single equation for the motion of the Moon covers some 250 large-size pages and represents the major effort of a lifetime

Fred L. Whipple

#6. I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Julian Castro

#7. I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed ...

William Butler Yeats