Faillir Synonyme Quotes & Sayings

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. — Julie Taymor

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know. — Jonathan Weiner

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses. — Stefan Zweig

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

In general, though, I would say that when a government is more concerned with keeping itself in power, and keeping its officials in luxury, whether they were elected to the posts, appointed, or inherited the position, then that government is abusive as well. Government is what takes care of things beyond you. Good government cares for the well-being of the people it serves. Abusive government cares only for its own well-being. The fewer the people, the less government you need. Does that seem clear to you? — Mercedes Lackey