Antigone Prologue Quotes & Sayings

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change. — Frank Herbert

For those who love what they do, even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week is not work at all. It is just fun. -RVM — R.v.m.

Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. There is only one solution - doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen, a process which, first of all, presupposes acceptance of something that goes by the name of government service and allows people to be treated like inanimate objects, precluding any humane or brotherly relationships, and, secondly, ensures that people working for this government service must be so interdependent that responsibility for any consequences of the way they treat people never devolves on any one of them individually. — Leo Tolstoy

I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness," she says. It — Eowyn Ivey

They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out of the way or killed for such things as oil, water, metal ore, and diamonds. — Daoud Hari

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. — Kathy Najimy

Fake love is a very powerful thing. — Chuck Klosterman

And I should mention the light
which falls through the big windows this time of day
italicizing everything it touches ... — Billy Collins

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. — Thomas Carlyle

When memories fade, can one ever really return home? — Floyd Skloot

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist ... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.' — Bill Engvall

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix