Undercurrents Nora Quotes

#1. In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

Pat Boone

#2. You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

Ali Mazrui

#3. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Spencer W. Kimball

#4. Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Mitch Albom

#5. Capitalism is in crisis.

Lech Walesa

#6. Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

John Clare

#7. There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Barbara Cartland

#9. Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Alexandra Ripley

#10. For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Five feet. Four feet. Three. Two. Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the Maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter.

James Dashner

#12. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -

Gillian Flynn

#13. Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin