Into The Wild Rhetorical Devices Quotes & Sayings

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle. — Christopher Hitchens

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. — John Sladek

My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me. — Louise Hay

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic
to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them. — C.S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be better to see challenges as a source of knowledge, and not as our enemies? — Paulo Coelho

Especially appealing to the planter elite was the conservatism of the American Revolution. Indeed, according to their reading, it had been so conservative that it hardly deserved the title of revolution at all. The goal had been simple political independence, and the issue of home rule had not expanded to include the dangerous question of who should rule at home. The men who made the revolution had maintained control in victory. — James L. Roark

ROM7.19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. — Anonymous

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. — Virginia Woolf

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love. — Dallas Willard

I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband. — Chuck Ragan

I shook my head, and his eyes traveled up my wall to the ceiling. I could almost see the wheels spinning inside his head. "What are you up to?" I asked, narrowing my eyes.

"I'm trying to think of another bet. — Jamie McGuire

We can remake the world daily. — Paul Wellstone