Raymond Spruance Quotes

#1. Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Kelsey Grammer

#3. A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Raymond A. Spruance

#4. Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.

Ron Paul

#5. I attempt from love's sickness to fly.

Henry Purcell

#6. It'll get easier, Paolo said.
But I knew that. That was the worst part. The worst part was that eventually you forgot about the people you loved. The dead ones and the ones who raised you and the ones you wanted to be with at the end of the day.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#9. Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Gerald May

#10. People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Laurie Simmons

#11. All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

T.A. Barron

#12. His mouth came to hers suddenly, hovering above those thirsting lips as he drilled her with the intensity of his mercury gaze.
"Neliss ... " he murmured, reverting to the elegance of their ancient language. "Neliss ent desita."
Beauty of the ages.

Jacquelyn Frank

#13. I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Richard Ernst