Menaced Assassin Quotes

#1. Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

Laozi

#2. He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#3. Another thing: a living culture is forever changing, without losing itself as a framework and context of change. The reconstruction of a culture is not the same as its restoration.

Jane Jacobs

#4. Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

Isaac Asimov

#5. Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

George Herbert

#6. A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Isabel Allende

#7. Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

George Orwell

#8. Never ever get mad at yourself if you miss a ball, lose a point, or double fault.

Sally Huss

#9. Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Emily Dickinson

#10. Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness.
"The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us."
Chapter 3 pg 50

Sylvia Day

#11. I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Francis Ford Coppola

#12. The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

Andrei Makine

#13. So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with ... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Brett Favre

#14. During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

Gunnar Myrdal