Hairsbreadth Quotes

#1. Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. The only thing I hated worse than cleaning my apartment was torture, though the two were a hairsbreadth away from neck-and-neck. I

Darynda Jones

#3. The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell nothing but him. The grain of his lips seemed to rest a hairsbreadth from mine.

Madeline Miller

#4. Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.

Neil Gaiman

#5. If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

Josh Marshall

#6. Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

Reid Hoffman

#7. The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Emma Goldman

#8. If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

Elizabeth Hand

#9. Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#10. Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

Rabbi Hillel

#11. No need to worry about loving one when all of them would be back tomorrow night.

Genevieve Valentine

#12. The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

Mikhail Kalinin

#13. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson