Prostrating Quotes

#1. EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

Joseph Story

#3. The cool enchantment of evening has arrived after the prostrating heat of summer's day and we lie quietly in anticipation of Your luminous appearance - Mysterious Selene, Whose Lunar Orb relieves the dark of night.

Lady Svetlana

#4. Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#5. Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.

Orson Scott Card

#6. The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

Graham Greene

#7. Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality.

Robert Galbraith

#8. It's a horrible thing to have your body fail you. You never think about it when you're young.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Risk is the most intense road.

Gustavo Cerati

#10. I recognize the vestiges of an old flame

Virgil

#11. The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Will.i.am

#12. I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.

Robin Brande