Sextillion Quotes

#1. With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and - owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation - over a year's time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived.

Guy Murchie

#2. If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

John Curran

#3. It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

Margery Allingham

#4. Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.

Terry Goodkind

#5. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

#6. If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

Sun Tzu

#7. Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

Jerzy Kosinski

#9. No, she must stop thinking. That's how she could be brought to sanity.

Paulo Coelho

#10. We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

Margaret Heffernan

#11. I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

Lorraine Heath

#12. If you do good, you feel good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.

Ian Harding

#14. Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

Edward Hirsch

#15. Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not.

Victoria Aveyard