Calinog Quotes & Sayings

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. — John Wesley

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world
births and deaths, births and deaths. — Leonid Andreyev

All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoy the ruin. But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion, and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair. There was none among the Myriad of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.
-The Creature — Mary Shelley

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are so busy wearing masks that we've forgotten who we really are — Steven Aitchison

Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties? — Wilkie Collins

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. — C.Rajagopalachari

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping. — Daniel Burka

Authority is quite degrading. — Oscar Wilde

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace — Haile Selassie

It's ... it's easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and ... you know ... talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves ... uh, you know ... getting your kicks 'cause you live in, you know ... a ... a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us ... you know. — Alex Jones

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison

We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department. — Kate O'Beirne

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan. — Bob Dylan

He sat with his yes fixed on hers while she spoke; then he lowered them and attached them to a spot on the carpet as if he were making a strong effort to say nothing but what he ought. He was a strong man in the wrong, and he was acute enough to see that an uncompromising exhibition of his strength would only throw the falsity of his position into relief. Isabel was not incapable of taking any advantage of position over a person of this quality, and though little desirous to flaunt it in his face she could enjoy being able to say 'You know you oughtn't to have written to me yourself!' and to say it with an air of triumph. — Henry James