Sultanically Quotes

#1. Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

Herman Melville

#2. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Mary McCarthy

#4. No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.

Valencia Mackie

#5. When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

Kristy Swanson

#6. I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

Viola Davis

#7. I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Thomas Perry

#8. All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

David Mitchell

#9. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

#10. I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

Jonny Lang

#12. Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

David Mitchell

#13. When I make a pretty good hook ( ... ) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.

Suzanne Collins

#14. One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.

Karen Hawkins

#15. If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

Francis Collins

#16. For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Rick Mears