Halkasten Quotes & Sayings

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people. — Dennis Kucinich

Some things are meant to be gone FOREVER. — Alyson Noel

Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live — Maximilien Robespierre

Love is the cage and the cage is closed and the door is locked and nobody's home. — Ashraf Siddiqui

He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that - illusions. Innocence was a community that was used up and consumed fairly quickly. More often than not, innocence was just ignorance, and the true character revealed itself before long - twisted and greedy like the rest. — Camille Oster

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying. — Robert Rauschenberg

Love is the social equivalent of gravity. — Morris Berman

But it is these four heroes, whom I will discuss from time to time in this book, whose poems, novels, stories, articles, memoirs, and encyclopedias opened my eyes to the soul of the city in which I live. For these four melancholic writers drew their strength from the tensions between the past and the present, or between what Westerners like to call East and West; they are the ones who taught me how to reconcile my love for modern art and western literature with the culture of the city in which I live. — Orhan Pamuk

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone. — James Thurber

The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's. — Charles Williams