Gracilens Quotes

#1. Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

J.K. Rowling

#3. The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Manuel De Falla

#4. As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#5. The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.

Lorna Sage

#6. Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

Yanis Varoufakis

#7. I know. I know all of that. But knowing doesn't make it easier.

Kate Avery Ellison

#8. You've no idea ... my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

Mark Twain

#10. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

C. G. Jung