Act27 Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

ACT27.20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. — Anonymous

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined. — Brian Pinkerton

If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry. — Lorin Stein

Even when I wasn't looking for Jimmy, there was a huge empty mouth waiting inside the doors of all those clubs. It was in almost every face, and every heartless electronic song. Just because it beats like one doesn't make it a heart. — Trebor Healey

We wanted to celebrate the 'Dangerous Deception' release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn't otherwise have one. — Margaret Stohl

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian

The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. — Joseph Rotblat

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy. — Jane Austen

You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended — T. S. Eliot

And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive. — Regina King

wish there'd been a shortcut, but the wound — Anne Lamott

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. — Cate Blanchett

Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love! — Josemaria Escriva