Illiberalise Quotes

#1. But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

Robert Burns

#2. Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

Lauren Bacall

#3. Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

Xenocrates

#4. Servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be x condemned.

Anonymous

#5. People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

Hotaru Odagiri

#6. As my friend and I talked, a homeless man sang just across the street from us, and we caught his voice in the snatches as the wind came over in gusts.

Teju Cole

#7. I just want to feel everything.

Fiona Apple

#8. It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages - I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.

James Patterson

#9. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

Gary Lutz

#11. The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

James Toback

#12. I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

George R R Martin