Lupean Quotes & Sayings

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future. — Barry Lyga

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity. — William Winwood Reade

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards. — Helen Keller

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us — Dan Simmons

My mother hasn't been speaking to me. She wanted me to forgive Neil, which was fine. There was room in my heart for forgiveness; there wasn't room in my life for someone who constantly needed it. — Tarryn Fisher

It's one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he's leading to realize whatever he's dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, 'I have a dream. Of course, I'm not sure they'll be up to it. — Benjamin Zander

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. — Samuel Johnson

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile. — Louis Aragon

The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was. — Louis De Bernieres

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century. — Warren Farrell

He's a child with a brand new toy, and I just hope he doesn't break me as soon as I'm out of the package. — J.M. Darhower

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it. — Chris Martin

God also likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, all the plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear. — Alan W. Watts

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time. — Billy Joel

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams