Codonas Visit Quotes & Sayings

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes. — Ayn Rand

The modern world was not alive to the tremendous Reality that encompassed it. We were surrounded by an immeasurable abyss of darkness and splendor. We built our empires on a pellet of dust revolving around a ball of fire in unfathomable space. Life, that Sphynx, with the human face and the body of a brute, asked us new riddles every hour. Matter itself was dissolving under the scrutiny of Science; and yet, in our daily lives, we were becoming a race of somnambulists, whose very breathing, in train and bus and car, was timed to the movement of the wheels; and the more perfectly, and even alertly, we clicked through our automatic affairs on the surface of things, the more complete was our insensibility to the utterly inscrutable mystery that anything should be in existence at all. — Alfred Noyes

The one thing about me is that I don't even know where I'll end up, and I don't know what I'll be doing but I know that I'll never really stop. — Mika.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman. — Max Lerner

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they? — Mark Jenkins

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love
I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me. — Sarah Fielding

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was - but I wanted to be there. — Aasif Mandvi

I could've sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn't miss you. — Pleasefindthis

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth — Raoul Vaneigem

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent. — George Cukor

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom. — George Lopez

While looking down memory lane, I realized that I have had an unusual and extraordinary life at times. Then it dawned on me, maybe it's because I'm supposed to help unusual and extraordinary lives. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. — Tabitha King

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh") — William Beckford