Galanis Home Quotes & Sayings

You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary — Frank Herbert

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. — Diane Cilento

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom. — Brand Blanshard

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal. — Timothy Garton Ash

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. — Marquis De Sade

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views — Drake

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life. — Jeanette Lee

Hey, I'm not a total idiot," said Nagasawa. "Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else, though. I'm going to give it a hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and if things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit." "Sounds like a pretty self-centered way to live," I said. "Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are." "That's probably true," I said. — Haruki Murakami

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him. — Sol Luckman

Oh shit, this is really happening!" Mia cried, terrified.
"Holy crap, I've never been in a tornado!" Shane exclaimed as he went pale.
-Mia and Shane — Andrea Heltsley

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. — May Sarton

I'm going to be an actor. — Mitch Gaylord

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast. — Diogenes