Archenemies Book Quotes & Sayings

We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes. — Dmitri Shostakovich

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J.G. Holland

Nate Harper had been hot for Casey Sullivan for years, but when he answered her, he wasn't speaking from below the belt. He was speaking from the brain. — Lauren Blakely

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles. — Samuel Palmer

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters. — Benjamin Hoff

In college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines. I — Helen Keller

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce

I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible. — Madame De Stael

We asked him many questions concerning all these things, to which he answered very willingly; we made no inquiries after monsters, than which nothing is more common; for everywhere one may hear of ravenous dogs and wolves, and cruel men-eaters, but it is not so easy to find states that are well and wisely governed. — Thomas More

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life. — Vita Sackville-West

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event. — Rhonda Byrne

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play. — Tim Kreider