27bhs Quotes & Sayings

and turned into a grazing-ground for superannuated — George Orwell

It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected. — Mircea Eliade

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-selling combines. Everywhere in close co-operation with our nationalist governments, the oil and steel interests, our drug salesmanship, and so forth, the hirelines of these huge religious concerns, with more or less zeal and loyalty, are selling destruction to mankind. — H.G.Wells

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally. — Kevin Williamson

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair. — Peter Geye

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does. — Patrick Rothfuss

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best. — Edward Burtynsky

Any last minute advice?" She raised a brow. "Try not to fall in love with anyone, — Karina Halle

I felt like a piece of glass, shattered and scattered all over. I didn't know who or what I was anymore, but I glittered prettily in the spotlight. I — Emma Scott

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on. — Taylor Swift

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most. — Linda Hamilton

It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual. — Jacques Barzun

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. — Gene Tierney