Fackellilie Quotes & Sayings

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty. — Thucydides

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed. — Ernest Becker

Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation. — Carl Hiaasen

Fear of darkness reinforces darkness. Acceptance and kindness magnify brightness. — Doobie Shemer

The more precious His gift," said Henry, "the more anxious God for its return. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me. — Eliot Paulina Sumner

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. — Criss Jami

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do. — Valerie Harper

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions. — Kailash Satyarthi

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support. — Michael McCaul

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness. — Lord Acton

The prospect of going home is very appealing. — David Ginola

This is what my high school life had become - a horror show of epic, mind-fuck proportions. — G.G. Silverman

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people. — Norman Reedus

What drove the hominins on through to larger brains, higher intelligence, and thence language-based culture? That, of course, is the question of questions. — Edward O. Wilson