Lacrimera Quotes & Sayings

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. — China Mieville

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place. — Alice Cooper

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. — Orhan Pamuk

In every such society, there is a cherished world of myth and metaphor which co-exists with the workaday world. Efforts to reconcile the two are made, and any rough edges at the joints tend to be off-limits and ignored. We compartmentalize. Some scientists do this too, effortlessly stepping between the skeptical world of science and the credulous world of religious belief without skipping a beat. Of course, the greater the mismatch between these two worlds, the more difficult it is to be comfortable, with untroubled conscience, with both. — Carl Sagan

I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades. — Peter Watts

During his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor. — Candice Millard

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. — Robin Sharma

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. — Mary Karr

all this Beethoven and rain — Michael Ondaatje

In times of danger the ignorant are easy prey and in times of safety opportunities pass them by. — Matshona Dhliwayo