Celaton Quotes & Sayings

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake. — Rick Perlstein

Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort that there are. What should we do without them? Our fur-clad little girls! our jolly, red-faced squires! we should never know how good they were, but for the poor? Without the poor how could we be virtuous? We should have to go about giving to each other. And friends expect such expensive presents, while a shilling here and there among the poor brings to us all the sensations of a good Samaritan. Providence has been very thoughtful in providing us with poor. — Jerome K. Jerome

How are you?" he asked softly.

"Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours."

His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down. — Holly Black

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge. — Bryant McGill

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement — Jean Nouvel

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival. — Daniel Goleman

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them. — Rosamunde Pilcher

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go. — Victor Wooten

Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times. — Colette Baron Reid

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot. — Isabel Allende

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts — Ernst Mayr

Adventure novels tend to be larger than life. They involve lots of wham-bam and don't usually require a lot of extra thinking on the reader's part the way a mystery or thriller might. — Emlyn Chand