Ascends Cody Quotes & Sayings

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer. — J.G. Holland

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. — Diana Wynne Jones

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? — Nicole Krauss

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore

Here's something about Mom: she's bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn't refill her water after she's asked three times, or she forgets her dark glasses when the sun comes out, look out! But when it comes to something truly bad happening, Mom plugs into this supreme calm. — Maria Semple

I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life. — Derek Ailes

As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men's service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer with genius enough to give it communicable form.
I thought of the millions of different men by whose combined labor and thought automobiles were produced, from the miners who dug the iron ore out of the earth to the railroad men and teamsters who brought the finished machines to the consumer, so that man, space, and time might be conquered, and ever-expanding victories be won against death. — Diego Rivera

Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors. — Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

This awakening of a new interest - this passing from the supposition that we hold the right opinions on a subject we are careless about, to a sudden care for it, and a sense that our opinions were ignorance - is an effectual remedy for ennui, which, unhappily, cannot be secured on a physician's prescription; — George Eliot

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well. — John Szarkowski

As the sun rose over Washington, Langdon looked to the heavens, where the last of the nighttime stars were fading out. He thought about science, about faith, about man. He thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We use different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared ... the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now. — Dan Brown