"What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven."

-- John Armstrong

#Spring Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.”
“To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or AngoulÃªme or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.”
“And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary”
“Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.”
“Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.”
“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”
“It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.”
“If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.”

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