Fahrenheit 451 Beatty Quotes & Sayings

One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense. — Henry James

The have influence, but no power."
"In my experience, influence is power. — Orson Scott Card

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make. — Carlos Ghosn

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. — Jules Verne

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn't that worth something? He existed. Not many people in the world knew how to, even if they had the money. It really didn't take money, masses of money, it took a certain security. — Patricia Highsmith

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper

The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would take any energy, but it did. — Lionel Shriver

Wrath would always come first for him. It was true for all the Brothers. And considering what Wrath had done to the game room, that was not a bad thing. — J.R. Ward

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover

There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept. — Karen White

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. — Eric Clapton

Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death, it still seemed to be something that happened only to other people, and I stood in an unending river of time that would go on making the same changes and the same returns forever.

And now, nearing the end, I see that my life is almost entirely memory and very little time. — Wendell Berry

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path. — Winston Churchill