Hobbesian Choice Quotes & Sayings

A full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it ... — Michael Cunningham

There is always just a thin line separating deep faith from intolerance, — Haruki Murakami

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury — Joseph Conrad

Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me. — Jeev Milkha Singh

Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants to amuse them? What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them? — Paul Chambers

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Except, now that I don't have a car, I can't really make good on my birthday promise."
Sydney thought about it for several moments. "Well. I've got a car."
An hour later, I vowed I'd never make fun of that Mazda again. — Richelle Mead

Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another. — B.G. Brainard

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing. — James L. Brooks

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives. — Gautama Buddha

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect. — George Lois

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. — Norman Vincent Peale

You bear the mark of the ouroboros, the sign of eternal life. And what is that circle, but the shadow of the sun itself. — Karen Maitland