Billy Budd Sailor Quotes & Sayings

The first time we had sex, it was a battle which he won. This time it was war. — Kristen Ashley

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. — Bertrand Russell

And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. — Herman Melville

He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way - only to live without her. — Diana Gabaldon

People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency, — Mac Miller

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can. — Annie Leonard

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill — L.P. Hartley

I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence. — Olaf Stapledon

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. — Erica Jong