Culmintes Quotes & Sayings

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy. — Ester Dean

A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills. — Christopher Pike

Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I must respect if I am to make the best use of my gift. Yet I live in the rational world and am subject to its laws. The temptation is to be guided entirely by impulses of an otherworldly origin-but in this world a long fall will always end in a hard impact. — Dean Koontz

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. — Graham Greene

I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it. — Philip K. Dick

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction. — Gregory Benford

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. — Doris Lessing

A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet "And the life of man, solitary, poor, brutish, and short." It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contract by which men agree to submit to rules and a presiding authority, surrendering their right to ravage each other for the sake of their own safety. The contract was not a bond of affection or identification, bot a culture or religion binding togetehr a civilization, only a convenience. Men, in his view, as in that of many other European writers of the period, are stark, mechanical creatures, windup soldiers social only by strategy and not by nature ... — Rebecca Solnit

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. — Harbhajan Singh

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes. — Geoff Mulgan

The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation. — Radhanath Swami

She was the type of woman who caused men to do stupid shit they would later look back on with disbelief. — Scott Hildreth

Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven. — Okakura Kakuzo

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s. — Charles Salvador

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong