Unpreserved Quotes

#1. They come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the Earthly you is utterly lost, unpreserved in the afterlife. You were all these ages, and you were none.

David Eagleman

#2. When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

Dean Winters

#3. I'm a television junkie.

Candice Accola

#4. I'm going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you're not to utter a word of protest.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.

Susan J. Tweit

#6. Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#7. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

Sean Bean

#9. We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey

#10. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Eric Cantona

#11. Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Henry James

#13. There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Milan Kundera

#14. First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

Francis Bacon