Archipelago Part Quotes & Sayings

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave. — Roger Scruton

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work. — Mary McDonnell

The stories we love best do live in us forever. — J.K. Rowling

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change. — Randall Munroe

The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude. — Gloria Tesch

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain. — Robin Jarvis

There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it. — Max Von Essen

let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance benefited the development of indigenous writing. The Dover Strait, separating England and France, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fine swimmer can swim across it. In contrast, the shortest distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is five or six times greater, and between Japan and the Chinese mainland, twenty-five times greater. The current, moreover, is deadly. . . . Japan's distance from China gave it political and cultural freedom and made possible the flowering of its own writing. — Minae Mizumura

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die. — Herbert Spencer

He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America ... The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. — Albert J. Beveridge

I didn't love him, but there was a time when I might have, and that was enough to move me forward. I needed to be needed. This wasn't the right way. — Seanan McGuire

Seeing as this is probably my last hurrah, I don't suppose I could get you two bleeding hearts to massacre a village with me? For old time's sake. - Jackal — Julie Kagawa

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. — Bette Davis

Now, an individual, one fellow, he will stop doing business because he's got a notion of what is right, and he is a hero. But folks in general, which is society, Doc, is never going to stop doing business. Society is just going to cook up a new notion of what is right. Society is sure not ever going to commit suicide. At least, not that way and of a purpose. — Robert Penn Warren