Crystalised Damon Quotes & Sayings

If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering. — Joshua Braff

They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint, — Rick Perry

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis. — Oscar Arias

I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all. — Colton Haynes

living means experiencing the world with your mind. — Dima Zales

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing. — Lynn Flewelling

You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious. — Andrew Bacevich

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. — John Ruskin

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. — Richard Marx

I am much more intelligent than you think. — Lord Mountbatten

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. — Gregory Benford

In the following pages I argue that we have both philosophical and scientific reasons to doubt the adequacy of this widely accepted doctrine of materialism. In the history of Western philosophy, as we will see, it has turned out to be notoriously difficult to formulate a viable concept of matter. And physics in the twentieth century has produced weighty reasons to think that some of the core tenets of materialism were mistaken. These results, when combined with the new theories of information, complexity, and emergence summarized elsewhere in this volume, point toward alternative accounts of the natural world that deserve careful attention and critical evaluation. — Paul Davies

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy