American Gods Czernobog Quotes & Sayings

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. — Tom Wolfe

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. — Elbert Hubbard

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful. — W. Clement Stone

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help. — Michael Specter

They came generally from people writing theses on fantasy or on the Dark Is Rising books. They were full of questions I'd never thought about and false assumptions that I didn't want to think about. They would ask me in great detail for, say, the specific local and mythical derivations of my Greenwitch, a leaf-figure thrown over a Cornish cliff as a fertility sacrifice, and I would have to write back and say, "I'm terribly sorry; I made it all up." They told me I echoed Hassidic myth, which I hadn't read, and the Mormon suprastructure, which I'd never even heard of. They saw symbols and buried meanings and allegories everywhere. I'd thought I was making a clear soup, but for them it was a thick mysterious stew.

from "In Defense of the the Artist" in Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature (1983) — Susan Cooper

The things of the world knew so much more than we did and lived them more truly. The thorn trees had no grief or fear. The constellations didn't fight or hold themselves back, nor did the translucent hook of the moon. Everything was momentary and endless. — Paula McLain

She was fantasy and I was the very most mundane kind of reality. — Stephenie Meyer

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable. — Frederick Lenz

But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws. — O. Henry

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously. — Mary Lou Williams

Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn't want to dismiss. Not tonight. — Katherine McIntyre

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. — Rumi

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you. — Mark Oliver Everett