Ximena Duque Quotes

#1. The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

Edgar Guest

#2. It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#3. Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion ... any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#4. How many people you lost? he asks asfter a second.
God. Numbers heavy in my mind will be even heavier off my tongue. I don't know what's worse, holding their names, or turning them into a body count.

Courtney Summers

#5. Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

Judd Apatow

#6. If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

Theodor Mommsen

#7. I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

Sherri Saum

#8. To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

Joshua Slocum

#9. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. When he wasn't cutting the pitiful figure of a mourning widower, he was being a downright prick.

Tessa Dare

#11. A house for wisdom, a field for revelation.
Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures:
Go where the light is.

Theodore Roethke

#12. No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

Zola Jesus

#13. Either get busy living your life or life will leave you behind.

Debasish Mridha