Niccolo Di Machiavelli Quotes

#1. Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Anthony De Mello

#2. Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

Henri La Fontaine

#3. Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self - condemning;
And of their vain contest' appeared no end.
(The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)

John Milton

#4. They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.

Libba Bray

#5. The Egyptians have always been deeply impressed by the fact of human mortality, and much of their religious belief and religious ritual is taken up with the rites of burial, and detailed doctrines as to the experience of the soul after parting from the body.

Anonymous

#6. Adam held out his right hand, and Gansey clasped it in a handshake, like they were en, because they were men.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Terry Pratchett