Hanshan Rates Quotes

#1. I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

Samuel Beckett

#2. We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Herman Melville

#4. I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.

Philippe Petit

#5. This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

George R R Martin

#6. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

Fritz Kunkel

#8. More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

David Berlinski

#9. But the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

Thomas Merton

#10. The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. You the white teacher. I thought you one of the boys." Then she paused. "You gonna drink it?" "Yep." "Teachers drink?" "Yep." "That's good. Oh Gawd, that's so good. I got some gin in that there paper bag when you finish.

Pat Conroy

#12. This is what it might be like to be a mother, I though, watching Sasha drain her beer, wipe her mouth like a boy. To feel this unexpected, boundless tenderness for someone, seemingly out of nowhere.

Emma Cline

#13. Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.

Debasish Mridha

#14. It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

Alex Kava