Xibalba X Quotes

#1. You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.

Rob Harrell

#2. The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Joseph Addison

#4. Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer.

Ali Ezzat Bigovich

#5. Yes, we too are stardust.

Jostein Gaarder

#6. I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

Rhys Darby

#7. Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.

Daniel Pearce

#8. I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

Philippa Gregory

#9. The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

#10. We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#11. Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

Ellen Key

#12. To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know - and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of - a great many truths.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#13. The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay ... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

David Lloyd George

#14. A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.

Terence McKenna

#15. ....The chemists' ingenuity in devising insecticides has long ago outrun biological knowledge of the way these poisons affect the living organism.

Rachel Carson