Carbuncular Stone Quotes & Sayings

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests arising from it; they are indeed at the service of economic power and the international trusts. The socialist empires for their part are hard and intransigent, they do not allow pluralism, they impose dialectical materialism, demand blind obedience to the party, set up a regime of total and permanent insecurity and fear, just like the fascist dictatorships of the extreme right. — Helder Camara

Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest. — Dan Gertler

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied. — Mark Billingham

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed. — Paul Auster

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him. — Dallas Willard

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. — Jacqueline Du Pre

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read. — Mary Street

My view ... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. — John Grierson

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that ... every act of my life may be an act of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Tried hard, he did, but trying's not doing. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity? — Douglas Coupland