Ancanot Quotes & Sayings

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride. — Simon Critchley

You must find the most important words a man can say. — Brandon Sanderson

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. — Mignon McLaughlin

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future. — B.H. Liddell Hart

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone. — A. L. Rowse

Time ground to a halt and the trees whispered in the language of God and nature about steadfastness and resilience - gently saying that one could be constantly stirred yet not moved, bent but not broken, that a thing well grounded and deeply rooted could ever stand. — Charles M. Blow

How am I looking at you?"
"Like I'm Little Red to your big bad wolf."
"Well," he said slowly, "I do want to eat you. — Bella Andre