Profligates Quotes

#1. Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...

Josephin Peladan

#2. The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him; He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong.

Michael Lewis

#4. We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission.

Liu Yang

#5. It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

#7. I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#8. To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

Lyn Hejinian

#9. The reality is technology is here, technology will only improve and certain technology companies will dominate in the next five to ten years, ... The problem is determining which ones and at what value.

George Rodrigue

#10. This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don't do either of those things.

Pema Chodron

#11. Anger was better than fear. Fear was a damp cold mess, but anger had an edge. She could use it.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

J.R. Moehringer

#13. Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

Nora Ephron

#14. You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Rebecca Solnit

#15. The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Ovid

#16. There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Winston Churchill