"All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood."

-- Laurie Lee

#Blood Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Panic Quotes

“Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”
“The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.”
“A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With every kiss, we'll promise this, we'll find a way to light the dawn of all we wish.”
“In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.”
“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.”

Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 231, 1949 - 1957.
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”

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