Harpan T Nlistarh S Quotes & Sayings

Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind — Dante Alighieri

Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart. — Sister Nivedita

I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores. — Christopher Moore

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. — G.K. Chesterton

Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it. — Daniel Keyes

I am a sea-gull - no - no, I am an actress. — Anton Chekhov

If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that He would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my soul, till God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are all slaves to the shining metal. — Douglas William Jerrold

ANACAMPTICK (ANACA'MPTICK) adj.[ or reflected: an anacamptick sound, an echo; an anacamptick hill, a hill that produces an echo. — Samuel Johnson

Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism. — John Stuart Mill

To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will. — Matthew Davis

One common strategy on which we should all be able to agree is to take steps to reduce the risk of human extinction when those steps are also highly effective in benefiting existing sentient beings. For example, eliminating or decreasing the consumption of animal products will benefit animals, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and lessen the chances of a pandemic resulting from a virus evolving among the animals crowded into today's factory farms, which are an ideal breeding ground for viruses. That therefore looks like a high-priority strategy. Other — Peter Singer