Chicagoans Go Off To War Quotes & Sayings

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. — Adam Phillips

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety. — Erika Robuck

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. — Edgar Allan Poe

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. — Louis MacNeice

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center. — Jimmi Simpson

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism — Ludwig Von Mises

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore. — Jaggi Vasudev

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones. — Spencer Boldman

The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness — Pessoa

Do you have to stop being you in order to write in a different genre? Think on it...it's in the name. — Stephen D. Matthews

Our lives are always safest, not when we have a good paying job or a big retirement account or when we live in the suburbs with a white picket fence, but when our lives are firmly placed in the hands of God. — Louie Giglio

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert. — Samuel Johnson

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level. — John Stuart Mill

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. — Ralph W. Gerard