Inner Citadel Quotes

#1. How he'd asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he'd saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked.

Celeste Ng

#2. First, as to Time: there is no difference between ten thousand years and one year; no difference between one hundred thousand years and a heartbeat. No difference. That is the first fact about Time. And the second fact: the entire universe with all of its Time is within me.

Frank Herbert

#3. She liked it dark when her soul felt black

Jamie McGuire

#4. In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

William Weld

#5. The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one dies because one dreams of one's father, what happens to a man who dreams of his mother-in-law?

H. Rider Haggard

#7. A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

David Milne

#9. When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

Gillian Wearing

#10. FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx used it for almost a decade to communicate the passion of delivering a package. The more passionate you are, the more successful you are.

Frank Luntz

#11. Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Ben Jonson

#13. Because history is not the background - history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times!

Philip Roth