Ricky Bruch Quotes

#1. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, Oh ... You are in so much trouble.

Rick Riordan

#3. There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

James Allen

#4. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

#5. A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. They say man only needs six feet of Earth. But it is a corpse, and not man, which needs these six feet.

Anton Chekhov

#7. If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

Steve Berry

#8. He who saw that everything depended on himself alone, who decided the fortune of individuals and nations, was happiest when thinking of that day on which he would lay aside his own greatness.

Seneca.

#9. When I got hit I went from having 37-year-old eyes to having 65-year-old eyes. That's why I've got the glasses on - so my eye isn't constantly trying to focus and giving me headaches. But they also help me see better: my right eye is blurry.

Chris Pronger

#10. Most of the Indians, particularly those living on the coasts and in the hotter climates, were given to unnatural lusts. To such a dreadful degree was this practised, that men even went about in female garments, and made a livelihood by their diabolical and cursed lewdness.

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

#11. God does not bless religious efforts - He blesses heart-felt obedience.

Jim George

#12. Even a King wishes to be loved for Himself, not for the gifts He bestows." He smiled at me. "If you do not enjoy being with Me now, why do you believe you will enjoy My company for eternity?" He smiled at me. "The pursuer wants to be pursued also."
Jesus

Anna Rountree

#13. We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants.

Ransom Riggs