Civilized Nations famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

  • Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

  • Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

  • After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

  • Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

  • Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  • What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

  • Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

  • I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

  • Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.