Quotes About Phlebas

#1. Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

T. S. Eliot

#2. There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

Iain Banks

#4. I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

Karin Slaughter

#5. I had lots of breaks.

Reba McEntire

#6. In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

Shantideva

#7. God is alive and faithful to make something beautiful out of us...God won't abandon us...He's going to replenish it all. He's carrying us in his arms, no matter how bruised or broken we feel. He's planting beautiful seed for our journey - seed that's thriving even among the barren months.

Bonnie Gray

#8. I was unsettled at the thought of going the entire weekend without him. Worse, I hated the thought of him spending that amount of time away from me. He had a world of choices and possibilities out there, women who weren't so screwed up and difficult to be with.

Sylvia Day

#9. Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

Barney Frank

#10. the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb.

Beth Morey

#11. Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It's a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.

Phil Libin