Proconsul Anthropology Quotes

#1. He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

George Orwell

#2. Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Dallas Willard

#3. In Beirut, death's unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night's Russian missiles, brighter than a baby's smile.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Minor White

#5. Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Gregory McDonald

#6. Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Barry Eisler

#7. And on my conscience," he said, "I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?"
"You know how."
"So I can be king?"
"So that we are not slaves in our own land," I said.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Mason Cooley

#9. I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

Sarah Dessen

#10. We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

Glenn L. Pace

#11. Would you like tickets for tonight's tour? (Andrei)
Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta)
That's American slang for 'no thank you. (Francesca)
Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for 'no fucking way.' (Andrei)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. I'm not going to be the Alabama coach.

Nick Saban

#13. Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

Barbara Corcoran

#15. Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a drunk dad, even an asshole, was better than a dead dad, which shouldn't reflect on you but did, and left a cannon hole in your heart. [p. 121]

Anne Lamott