Magnetic Hill Quotes

#1. I'm not at all the sort of woman who kisses strange dragons when she comes across them.

Katie MacAlister

#2. In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Shimon Peres

#3. Even the kingdom of evil came to seem to me like only the empty space where true love might have been.

Andrew Klavan

#4. Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts other similar, or related thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#5. it is impossible today to know how much the war colored the thinking and attitudes of the child of today.

Judith C. Waller

#6. Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

Julian Baggini

#7. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

#8. There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.

Marsha Norman

#9. Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

#10. The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world.

Sam Harris

#11. If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

Harold Laski

#12. It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

Jodie Foster

#13. We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature ... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

Lewis Thomas

#14. We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.

Mohamed Nasheed

#15. One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [ ... ] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Anne Fadiman