Heliouris Quotes & Sayings

There's something very powerful about going after what you want seriously. — Nolan Sotillo

Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)

The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!
The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.
Every man knows how useful it is to be useful.
No one seems to know
How useful it is to be useless. — Thomas Merton

They say that love is found in the darkest of moments, when you're lost and alone, in desperate search of answers. — Christine Brae

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. — Sextus Empiricus

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. How — David McCullough

Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess. — Dean Koontz

wondered, I want to help her. — Cambria Hebert

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone. — Holly Black

Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes. — Evan Rachel Wood

Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. — Anne Ursu

Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound. — Sarah Helen Whitman

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her. — Hugh Howey