Arkadian Collection Quotes & Sayings

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent. — Saint Augustine

It's the kind of human junk that deepens the landscape, makes it sadder and lonelier and places a vague sad subjective regret at the edge of your response - not regret so much as a sense of time's own esthetic, how strange and still and beautiful a chunk of concrete can be, lived in fleetingly and abandoned, the soul of wilderness signed by men and women passing through. — Don DeLillo

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it. — Tatyana Ali

Success has always been a great liar — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. — Samuel Butler

I made a vow to myself to never be fooled again by a man or a halo wearing asshole with wings. — Christine Zolendz

You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander. — Joseph Heller

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. — Gustave Flaubert

An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name. — Douglas Adams

Talk is the most precious and result-driven commodity managers have to share. — Julie Winkle Giulioni

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Dix

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain. — Suze Orman