Lantern Bearers Quotes & Sayings

By what criterion ... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends? — Chauncey Wright

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. — Julia Roberts

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others ... — Arthur Schopenhauer

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. — William Drummond

I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood. — Margaret Atwood

Beauty," he whispered.
"What?" I asked.
"Beauty. It's pure beauty you don't wanna be away from me. I don't like that, baby. I love it — Kristen Ashley

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you. — Hyrum W. Smith

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. — Murray Gell-Mann

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately. — Robert Silverberg

What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass? — Janet McAdams

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job. — Chris Stapleton

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her. — Bruno Mars

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous." — Mos Def

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not. — Parmenides

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me. — Frank McCourt

It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind. — Rosemary Sutcliff