Luckelf Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein. — Madhur Bhandarkar

If you love me, you will go now. I would have you live. For once they wake, I cannot stop them... — Sasha Summers

Struggles among Roman patricians, plebeians, and slaves produced a version of the chordal triad universalized around a notion of libertas. Different notes of the chord were dominant from the Republic to the Empire. The slave's point of view was made prominent in the figure of Epictetus, one of the few major Roman theorists born a slave. By the Middle Ages, freedom had attained a spiritual dimension but was still linked to the political. With medieval Christendom came the triumph of the sovereignal conception of freedom. That triumph coincided with theocratic societal decadence, the doctrine of heresy, the transformation of mass slavery into the political language of serfdom, and the introduction of the root word Slav to refer to serfs across Europe. Heretics privileged their personal freedom over sovereign orthodoxy. Being burned at the stake was a consequence. — Neil Roberts

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else ... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. — B.F. Skinner

Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all. — Hiromu Arakawa

There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between. — Sarah Dessen

The piano is kind of my second instrument. — Bill Bruford

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there. — Ted Olson

People are like plants: they grow toward the light. — Hope Jahren

If I told you just how much I need you, would you stay? — Darnell Lamont Walker

One day they will name a plague for you," he said.
"Hopefully a particularly nasty one," she answered. "A girl can dream. — Alexandra Bracken

Think too much and you start to panic. Better to keep moving. — James N. Cook