Alex Voss Quotes & Sayings

As the Maestro is never loath to tell us, a human who suffers from too much ambition succeeds only in exemplifying the Creator's own lack of anticipation. The D.K., wishing His Vision to be innovative, had created the human will as an instinct all but free of Him. Once again, God had miscalculated. — Norman Mailer

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. — Gerald Stanley Lee

Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place. — Jeno Marz

At seventeen, I'm in-between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and become an adult; liking the view too much to turn back. — Kirsty Eagar

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. 'Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are. [ ... ] No axiom in politics is more certain than this. — Francois Mitterrand

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution. — E. O. Wilson

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose. — Robert Hunter

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure. — Alice Foote MacDougall

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. — Wayne Rooney

You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses. — Epictetus

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do. — Murasaki Shikibu