Partible Past Quotes

#1. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.

Helen Waddell

#2. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Susan Cain

#3. Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.

Frank Sonnenberg

#5. My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Anais Nin

#6. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand

#7. The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

John Grant

#8. But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at

Shelby Foote

#9. This is not a game, and I am tired of people around here forgetting where they put their nuts!' Frank draws the attention of the officers gawking at the TV set; waiting for Connor to start streaming again.

Luis Samways

#10. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.)

Elizabeth Kolbert

#12. I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

Joseph Conrad

#13. Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche