Alceste Quotes & Sayings

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer. — Eric Hoffer

No, she who rides the tiger can never dismount! — Dave Duncan

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up. — Tessa Maurer

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality — Seanan McGuire

I'm a California boy. I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
(Paris Review Interview) — Ray Bradbury

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.' — Tim Tebow

From now on, don't do this, even for me. We don't have an employer-employee relationship right now. I'm a person and you're a person. Why does it have to be so one-sided? Why do only women ... Why only you, Yoo Kyeong, have to do things like that? 'So, I'll try to look good, in any way that I can.' Let go of such thoughts. When you're on TV, you look wonderful, full of confident. You shine. — Lee Se-joo

The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. This is the basis on which we must raise ourselves, and not space and time, which we would not know how to fill. Let us make it our task, then, to think well: here is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal

To invent something is to find it in what previously exists. — Brian Arthur

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating. — Danny Meyer

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is - and will continue to be - a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it. — Rosa Brooks

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889. — Daniel A. D'Aniello