Incandescere Quotes & Sayings

Logic only gives man what he needs," he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants. — Tom Robbins

Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore. — Mikhail Naimy

It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. — James Allen

Tradition maintained that Rome had been founded in 753 BC. For the Romans this was Year One and subsequent events were formally dated as so many years from the 'foundation of the city' (ab urbe condita). — Adrian Goldsworthy

I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. — Ben Carson

Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to. — Frederick Lenz

Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant. — Lev Landau

The old refrain is that there are no atheists in foxholes. That's nonsense. They are there by the millions. There is little in combat that will lead one to look upon the Creator with favor. What can't be there, instead, is the individualist, the selfish, the self-consumed, the self-centered, the aloof loner. Such a man cannot long survive. The terror of combat cannot be described by fear of death. There are worse things. The world can suddenly become a very cold place...He needs warmth, a fire, to survive: His discipline, his training, his duty, honor and country, his family, and ultimately the very oak of his manhood are thrown into the blaze, but they are not enough to save him. At the end, he needs the warmth of his comrades. Otherwise, all he will have with which to face the cold dark will be his own spent soul. — Frank Boccia

Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down. — Amadou Hampate Ba

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice. — Thomas Paine

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.) — Christopher Hitchens

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall. — Geoff Zanelli

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. — Barbara Amiel

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction. — Robert M. Gates