Enchased Quotes & Sayings

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. — Richard M. Nixon

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important. — Bill O'Brien

There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory in and of itself, as a "work." Its ambition is to make others believe that it was not made but rather simply arose, burst forth from Jupiter's head like Pallas Athena fully adorned in enchased armor. But that is only a pretense. No work has ever come into being that way. It is indeed work, artistic labor for the purpose of illusion-and now the question arises whether, given the current state of our consciousness, our comprehension, and our sense of truth, the game is still permissible, still intellectually possible, can still be taken seriously; whether the work as such, as a self-sufficient and harmonically self-contained structure, still stands in a legitimate relation to our problematical social condition, with its total insecurity and lack of harmony; whether all illusion, even the most beautiful, and especially the most beautiful, has not become a lie today. — Thomas Mann

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. — Jeff Bridges

I want more out of life than I've gotten. — Loretta Lynn

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott

Happiness is not to be found in someone, but to be generated with someone — S.E. Sever

Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun ... — John Keats

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them. — Helmut Schmidt

I loved him desperately, completely, and he wasn't threatening to consume me anymore. He already had. Everything that was me was him. My heart, mind and soul all were as much a part of him as they were me. — Cassandra Giovanni

There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely. — Chris Cleave