Quotes About The Sieve And The Sand In Fahrenheit 451

#1. Moments ... there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan's oracle tells you to do.

Kim Cormack

#2. In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Jonah Lehrer

#3. Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Courage is acting in faith despite your feelings of fear.

Joel Balin

#5. These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Alain Badiou

#6. Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

John Adams

#7. For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. Nightly returning miracle, you turn to anarchy the strict rule of reason.

Nicola Lecca

#9. I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.

Tina Fey

#10. I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

Roy Barnes

#11. I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

Ann Charles

#12. I opened up to you and you judge me

Matthew Quick

#13. Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

Napoleon Hill