Candelabra Led Quotes & Sayings

The Manitou of America will creep in you, rejoice you when she shines above, and offend and sadden you when she is put down. — George Sorbane

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. — David Ives

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker. — Richard Hooker

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women. — Janet Radcliffe Richards

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear and enlightened, that we can see nothing for excess of light, and go banging our noses against the first tree we come to in the wood. We insist, now-a-days, on grasping the other world with stretched-out arms of flesh and bone. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time. — Jason Calacanis

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria. — Georges Bidault

I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are to assume that such corruption (and its spread throughout society) is the mechanism by which a civilization attracts cosmic catastrophe, blaming and deposing the elite is a good solution. The problem, however, is that the underlying mechanism is not understood by the people, which means that they lack the knowledge that, if they are to prevent further destruction, they must, at all costs, prevent the establishment of any future corrupt elite. — Laura Knight-Jadczyk