Cavilon Skin Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much. — Saint Augustine

We tell ourselves lies to survive when we know the truth will kill us." "It — Tiffany Reisz

I had no future either, not because it existed somewhere else but because I couldn't imagine it. That I might control my future and try to make it turn out the way I wanted was completely beyond my horizon. Everything was of the moment, I took everything as it came and acted on the basis of premises I didn't even know myself, and without realizing this is what I did. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Ours has been an expansionist society, but that narrative must change as we run out of places to expand into. But our culture is like a cart stuck in the same old rut that has been leading us in one direction. The longer we've been using a path, the deeper the ruts get, the harder it is to escape them. We've been moving ever Westward, but there's only so far we can go in that direction before we fall into the ocean. It's a direction that we cannot continue on forever, but the breaking of those ruts will require a major rupture. The old narrative is dying, and it will be quite a crushing of gears before things are re-adjusted. A shared story is needed for a civilization to endure. — James Rozoff

Philippians 4:11-13 goes directly against both the prosperity, and the austerity, gospel. — Darren Edwards

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. — Alexander The Great

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy. — Emil Cioran

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live. — Melissa Manchester

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person. — Louise Nurding