The Erl King Carter Quotes

#1. Sometimes he lays his head on my lap and lets me comb his lovely hair for him; his combings are leaves of every tree in the wood and dryly susurrate around my feet.

Angela Carter

#2. We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

Denis Hayes

#3. We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Barack Obama

#4. Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.

Robert Harris

#5. ... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.

Pico Iyer

#6. If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

Karin Fossum

#7. If {Death} comes for you?" he said. "Would you be so sanguine then?"
She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. "No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

Kij Johnson

#8. We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

John Piper

#9. Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. Have a vision, Mary, unclouded by fear.

David Arnold

#11. went across the more civilized Third

H. Beam Piper

#12. Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Isobelle Carmody

#13. I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. Probably we each could point to times in our own lives when if we had listened to someone's advice, we, too, could have avoided many problems.

Devin Brown

#15. The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.

Winifred Holtby

#16. I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

Angela Carter