Etolians Quotes & Sayings

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness! — Guy De Maupassant

She says, this is Holly, I say honey, you sound far away, she says I'm in
New York, I say what the hell are you doing in New York when it's Sunday and you got
the test tomorrow?
She says I'm in New York cause I've never been to New York. — Truman Capote

Your beauty took my breath away, but your mind has stopped my heart. — Ivan Rusilko

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you are looking at a flow of energy through the sky that is causing a gas to glow. — Steven Magee

Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories. — Sam Harris

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. — Josh Billings

Discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted the Romans into Greece. So it was with every province that the Romans entered: they were brought in by the inhabitants themselves. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. — Simon Sinek

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. — Terence McKenna

One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. — Loren Eiseley