"Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach."

-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Flames Quotes #Envy Quotes

“We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.”
“But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.”
“When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.”
“I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous”
“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”

Source : "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.
“Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.”
“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.”
“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”

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