Cardoner River Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever been in a temple and seen men kneeling silently, reverently, their souls raised to the greatest height they can reach? To the height where they know they are clean, and clear, and perfect? When their spirit is the end and the reason of all things? Then have you wondered why that has to exist only in a temple? Why men can't carry it also into their lives? Why, if they can know the height, they can still want to live less than the highest? That's what we want to live, you and I. — Ayn Rand

Science is the true theology. — Thomas Paine

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. — Brit Marling

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike

There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious. — Frederick Lenz

My bare foot sounded like a sad trout flapping against the marble floor. — Kevin Hearne

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. — C.S. Lewis

Pick your enemies more carefully then your friends, they will be with you longer. — Joe Abercrombie

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. — Mason Cooley

The marginal utility of money to any individual, i.e., the marginal utility derivable from the goods that can be obtained with the given quantity of money or that must be surrendered for the required money, presupposes a certain exchange-value of the money; so the latter cannot be derived from the former. 1 Those who have realized the significance of historically-transmitted values in the determination of the objective exchange-value of money will not find great difficulty in escaping from this apparently circular argument. — Ludwig Von Mises