Nacreous Quotes

#1. When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

Paul Mason

#2. What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.

Ronald Reagan

#3. My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

William Penn

#5. We walked up the steps of a quaint stone church. "Get those friggin' leeches away from me!" a familiar voice yelled from a second story window ... "I said, no leeches!

Suzanne Selfors

#6. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Alexander Fleming

#7. We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearl-like, from our souls without real pain. Fiction

Neil Gaiman

#8. Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#9. I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.

Fennel Hudson

#11. I tore apart the fantasies of Poe, And dealt with childhood memories of strange Nacreous gleams beyond the adults' range.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Hannah Arendt