Anselmian Atonement Quotes & Sayings

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular. — Orhan Pamuk

An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty in its arsenal. So long as those malicious tailless apes that are so proud of their technical achievements - the animals that we call men - will build armies and wage wars, the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear. And yet armies are not built on fear. The Tsar's army fell to pieces not because of any lack of reprisals. In his attempt to save it by restoring the death-penalty, Kerensky only finished it. Upon the ashes of the great war, the Bolsheviks created a new army. These facts demand no explanation for any one who has even the slightest knowledge of the language of history. The strongest cement in the new army was the ideas of the October revolution, and the train supplied the front with this cement. — Leon Trotsky

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either. — David Cross

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. — Barack Obama

Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life. — Naguib Mahfouz

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity. — Bradford Cox

Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth. — David Almond

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego. — Shepard Fairey

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music. — Avicii

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. — Glenn Frey

To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar,
motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document. — Neal Stephenson

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. — Bear Grylls