Altairs Chronicles Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked. — Shaquille O'Neal

It really matters what you listen to ... Select music that will strengthen your spirit. — Russell M. Nelson

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it. — Robert Lowth

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw? — P. J. O'Rourke

According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man. — Neel Burton

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason. — Indra Devi

When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell. — Margarita Engle

She knew she should be happy the girls were outside riding their very expensive horses. Girls who rode became interested in boys and makeup and cigarettes much later than their nonriding counterparts. — Elin Hilderbrand

This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it. — Adam Schlesinger

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan