Lambent Armor Quotes

#1. How could we have revived the soul without music?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#3. I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

Robert Gibbs

#4. Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're being mean, you need to get laid," your problem is not sex. Your problems are that you might be acting like an asshole, and your friends are definitely idiots.

Katie Heaney

#5. I'd neglected everyone just to spend more time with someone I shouldn't have been spending time with.

Jolene Perry

#6. The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

Vladimir Sorokin

#7. The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

Molly Harper

#8. Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso]

Kirsten Arcadio

#9. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Andrew Luck

#10. When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

Warren Beatty

#12. We will all have to answer to God in due time. However, I don't believe God is more concerned about what others do to us; rather, how we respond to them.

Joan Ambu

#13. If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Francis Quarles

#14. That was the beauty in stacking up words
they got cheaper, the more you had of them.

Rainbow Rowell