Litterateur Quotes

#1. Above all Siddartha learned from the river how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgments, without opinions.

Hermann Hesse

#2. I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Edmund Burke

#3. If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

Jan Morris

#4. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

Amy Engel

#5. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

Mark Lawrence

#8. Love is all that awaits you.

Howard Falco

#9. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!

Tad Williams

#10. I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#11. From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. Let God's actions be accounted unto God, and man's actions be the responsibility of man. Do not blame God for man's mistakes.

Kassi Pontious