Glassless Mirrors Quotes & Sayings

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. — Alexander Pope

The secular power, on the contrary, was in the hands of kings and barons of Teutonic descent, who endeavoured to preserve what they could of the institutions that they had brought out of the forests of Germany. Absolute power was alien to those institutions, and so was what appeared to these vigorous conquerors as a dull and spiritless legality. The king had to share his power with the feudal aristocracy, — Bertrand Russell

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got. — Wally Lamb

I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite. — Shane Black

Might doesn't make right. Might makes reality. — Brent Weeks

Today, the men from that meeting are frozen in photographs.
They are immortal, or rather: they must never be forgotten.
The villa has become a place of memorial.
I visited it one gloriously sunny day in July 2004.
You can walk through the horror.
The long table used for the meeting is frightening.
As if the objects had taken part in the crime.
The place with forever be charged with terror.
So this is what it means, when a chill runs down your spine.
I had never understood that expression before.
The physical manifestation of an invisible icy finger.
Tracing the vertebrae in your back. — David Foenkinos

I really don't like talking about diets. — Bess Myerson

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. — Barbara Kingsolver

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. — George Grosz

The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere. — Tyne O'Connell

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. — Eric Hoffer

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it. — Scott A. Butler