Descent Into Savagery Quotes & Sayings

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm. — Rabbit Maranville

My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.' — Joe Paterno

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead. — Yul Brynner

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve. — Douglas Rushkoff

She smells the way a mermaid ought to smell. She smells of the sea. — George R R Martin

I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious - or should be to anyone who values their time. — Graeme Simsion

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better. — Aleatha Romig

When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen. — Harrison Owen

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror. — Tzachi Hanegbi

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more ... safe. — Joni Eareckson Tada

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task. — David Levithan

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon. — Mohammed Omar

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself ... fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think. — Gwyneth Lewis