Graveland In The Glare Quotes

#1. Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars.

Ben Fountain

#2. The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. I'm going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Jackson Browne

#4. Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette.

Neal Stephenson

#5. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Marianne Williamson

#6. More than anything, I wanted to help her write new words, on perfectly crisp, untouched paper, and to come up with a flawless title, for the perfect story.

Rachel Brookes

#7. As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

#8. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Francis Bacon

#9. Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.

Deb Stratas

#10. Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples.

David McCullough