Ruth Nanda Anshen Quotes

#1. Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

J.D. Robb

#2. We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

Donald Hall

#3. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Maggie Nelson

#4. It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.

Alex Gaskarth

#5. Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#6. Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Anne Roiphe

#7. There's a sob building inside me so immense and powerful it's going to break all my bird bones. It's Judemageddon.

Jandy Nelson

#8. People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

Frederick Lenz

#9. Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

Timothy West

#10. [B]eyond the divisiveness among men there exists a primordial unitive power since we are all bound together by a common humanity more fundamental than any unity of dogma.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#11. If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

John Irving

#12. Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#13. Knowledge is a process, not a product ...

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#14. I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today
which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Robert E. Howard

#15. For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#16. I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

Princess Diana