Cielle Miklein Quotes & Sayings

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget. — Robert Kagan

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.' — Amelie Nothomb

Ah, God. Brain freeze!" Trey yelled and covered his eye with his free hand. "Fuck. Why does that hurt so bad?"
Reagan laughed at him. "Suck it more slowly next time," she advised.
He had fifteen lines he could have used at that moment. — Olivia Cunning

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. — Leigh Bardugo

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action. — Tom Hiddleston

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. — Kirk Hammett

The Risen Christ is the standing icon of humanity in its final and full destiny. He is the pledge and guarantee of what God will do with all of our crucifixions. At last, we can meaningfully live with hope. It is no longer an absurd or tragic universe. Our hurts now become the home for our greatest hopes. — Richard Rohr

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — C.P. Snow

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. — Bob Dylan

Religion is always falling apart. — Alan Watts

All prevailing philosophies embody the fiction that human life can be altered at will. Better aim for the impossible, they say, than submit to fate. Invariably, the result is a cult of human self-assertion that soon ends in farce. The line of thinking that is traced in this book runs in an opposite direction - not only in questioning the idea of progress but also, and more fundamentally, in rejecting the idea that it is only through action that life can be meaningful. Politics is only a small part of human existence, and the human animal only a very small part of the world. Science and technology have given us powers we never had before, but not the ability to refashion our existence as we wish. Poetry and religion are more realistic guides to life. — John N. Gray

Great quotes do not come from great people. They come from ordinary people who think differently. — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

You're at the crack addict's apartment? Having a little sandwich? he says. From the tone of his voice, you'd think I just told him I was hanging out at a playground wearing a NAMBLA t-shirt. — Augusten Burroughs