Quotes About Rasselas

#1. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true." - Rasselas.

George Eliot

#3. The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western wheat raising, of merely material expansion. Art, form, may return, but I doubt I shall live to see them
I don't believe they are as eternal as the poets say.

Henry James

#5. Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Jim Highsmith

#6. We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East ... The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

George Sarton

#7. Want to know a Secret? Someone out there can't stop thinking about you.You are Beautiful. Don't ever believe differently.

Drake

#8. It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.

Thea Halo

#9. The cool part about naming your kid is you don't have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

Bill Murray

#10. Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

#11. The new race of warriors would be their hope, their salvation, their loves' destiny. But they too could be tainted. They too could be seduced by the black forces they had been created to fight against.

Madison Thorne Grey

#12. Reflections ... passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

Victoria June

#13. When you're involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you.

Dallin H. Oaks

#14. Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#15. The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Joseph Campbell

#16. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.

Samuel Johnson