Beltane Celebration Quotes & Sayings

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends
and which redeems all the rest. — Iris Murdoch

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. — Emma Goldman

It was better not to remember such terrible details. — Leo Tolstoy

Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you — Mary Jo Putney

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity, — Ben Goldacre

Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever. — Michael R. Fletcher

She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin, the heart. She was beginning, as a consequence, to envy almost everyone she met, to envy their small preoccupations, their carefully kept account books, the way they stood on streetcorners talking about farm machinery, the weather, the price of a bag of oats, fully connected for the moment to these ordinary things. Her connection continually slipped downstream, against the current, toward the swiftly disappearing past. What beyond the most cursory, practical knowledge of fashion, had the present to do with her? — Jane Urquhart

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand - they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor. — Dennis Lehane

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing. — Bonnie Somerville

I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man. — China Mieville

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is. — Robert B. Parker

Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it! — Denise Austin

Probably you should stay out of my head. It's not a friendly place. — Kiersten White

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third. — Suzy Kassem