Phebus Torrontes Quotes

#1. Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Gil Courtemanche

#2. Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

Mick Napier

#3. Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

Steve Martin

#4. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

#5. Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Arabella Weir

#6. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

#7. When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

Dag Hammarskjold

#8. Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

Khalil Gibran

#9. Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. I keep cutting. For him. For me. For ruining lives.
Apparently, I'm good at that.

Andrea Randall

#11. It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

Terence McKenna

#12. There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#13. when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.

Michio Kaku

#14. Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement ... recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

Dennis Nurkse