Neo Noir Quotes

#1. If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Robert Jordan

#2. For the need to think can never be stilled by allegedly definite insights of "wise men"; it can be satisfied only through thinking, and the thoughts I had yesterday will satisfy this need today only to the extent that I want and am able to think them anew.

Hannah Arendt

#3. Most women I know are priestesses and healers ... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Marianne Williamson

#4. I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

Jean Ferris

#5. They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

Ann Brashares

#6. I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Richard Eyre

#7. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

William McDonough

#8. There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

Patricia Schroeder

#9. He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

Andrew Vachss

#10. How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

Kristin Kreuk

#11. Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

Murasaki Shikibu

#12. The experience of redemption is to see differently in looking back," Reinders observes. "It is hindsight.

Anonymous