Sturdily Built Quotes

#1. I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

Neil Strauss

#2. Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it.

Isaac Asimov

#3. Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#4. There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Auguste Rodin

#5. I must do something, Elentiya," Nehemia said, using the name she'd given her on the night Celaena admitted that she was an assassin. "I must find a way to help my people. When does gathering information become a stalemate? When do we act?" Celaena

Sarah J. Maas

#6. We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

Paul Cellucci

#7. It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

India.Arie

#8. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.

Dan Brown

#9. Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

Beth Henley

#11. White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

Dov Davidoff

#12. Sexual desire, without Eros, wants it, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved.

C.S. Lewis