Ancalagon The Black Quotes & Sayings

For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story. — Anupam Sibal

Don't ask for everything on your platter," she said. "Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there's another world we're all going to that's better than this
one."
"I know that world," he said.
"It's peaceful," she said.
"Yes."
"There's quiet," she said.
"Yes."
"There's milk and honey flowing."
"Why, yes," he said.
"And everybody's laughing."
"I can see it now," he said.
"A better world," she said.
"Far better," he said. "Yes, Mars is a great planet. — Ray Bradbury

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money. — Jane Smiley

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. — Anthony Burgess

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first. — Carsten Jensen

When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life. — Roman Payne

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things. — Sam Maloof

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards. — Barbara Tuchman