45th Bday Quotes & Sayings

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

She continued her study of the lines and colors embedded in my skin. — S.L. Jennings

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism. — Nicholas Gane

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill. — Chill Wills

Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things - for love, for acceptance - that I do not really need. I need nothing except the submission that comes with fear. I do not know why it took me so long to learn this. — Marie Lu

She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky. — Alan Russell

If breath is as close as I can get,
tomorrow, I'll become the wind
just to be with you again. — Frederick Espiritu

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless. — George Orwell

He cranks the condo's AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic darkness where you're dreading whatever you think of. — David Foster Wallace