Frightfully Tall Quotes & Sayings

Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable. — John Stuart Mill

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. — Terry Pratchett

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman

A creature
a frightfully, awful creature
was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery skin was stretched taut upon its face. Its mouth was wide and full of needle teeth. Its hands rested on the rock, hands that were webbed and huge with each finger ending in a sharp, curved nail. It was as tall as a human man, yet oddly shrunken and hunched. — M.L. LeGette

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey ... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last. — Vernon Howard

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility. — Stephen King