The Poe Consequence Quotes

#1. You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Jodie Evans

#2. She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

Heinrich Heine

#3. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

#5. She sucks in her breath and lets the flames race along the comforter until they lick her and swallow her whole.

James Patterson

#6. The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Thomas Hardy

#7. One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

Keith Steinbaum

#8. No money changed hands, of course.

Nancy Pelosi

#9. I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

Keith Steinbaum

#10. The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Jean Cocteau

#11. He didn't like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.

Keith Steinbaum

#12. But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

Edgar Allan Poe