Always The Inviter Quotes & Sayings

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London. — John Cleese

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many ... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An uninterrupted view of the Paris skyline was spread out before her, like a giant landscape painting rendered in shades of blue-grey, charcoal and purple-tinted umber; the dreamy palette of shifting shadows at twilight. The blue hour. — Kathleen Tessaro

To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality. — Roland Barthes

When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate — Yuval Noah Harari

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. — Mark Twain

His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea, as suggestive as it is fantastic, that antiquity has no need of repetitions enacted in subsequent periods, because it 'essentially' returns constantly on its own strength. In other words, antiquity - or the ancient - is not an overcome phase of cultural development that is only represented in the collective memory and can be summoned by the wilfulness of education. It is rather a kind of constant present - a depth time, a nature time, a time of being - that continues underneath the theatre of memory and innovation that occupies cultural time. — Peter Sloterdijk

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. — Ben Tolosa

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start. — S.T. Joshi

He's the only thing that's been right in my life. Ever. — Georgia Cates

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant. — Jay-Z

He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears. — Erin McCarthy

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought. — Ken Follett