Ron Franz In Into The Wild Quotes

#1. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.
For a little while I'm not afraid.
Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.
Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

Ray Bradbury

#2. He smiles and the world is okay. It feels like it grew a tiny bit. Like I let him into the small corner where I live. He grabs my hand, squeezing it and kisses the top of it, Now stop trying to scare me off with talks of having kids and area rugs and shit. I'm not going anywhere.

Tara Brown

#3. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Janet Malcolm

#4. Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

Ian Holm

#5. Survival required a certain degree of stubbornness.

Sarah M. Eden

#6. This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty.

Pierce Brown

#7. I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

Lars Von Trier

#8. Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#9. I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

Napoleon Hill

#10. A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Jonathan Swift

#11. For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....

David T. Hardy

#12. But you must stop playing among his ghosts
it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.

Patricia A. McKillip

#13. Beauty puts a fine point on grief, shoots bull's-eye into the heart.

Lauren Groff

#14. History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Laurence Overmire