Lyra S Oxford Quotes & Sayings

What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. — Herman Melville

The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of being the government, can spend money in ways that no private citizen or group no matter how powerful, can. — Jesse Taylor

Peace is always beautiful. — Walt Whitman

When it came to relationships, the truth never set anyone free. The truth only set things on fire. — Kami Garcia

I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside. — Lady Gaga

The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a national bedwetting. — Euny Hong

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn't enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that's not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. — Philip Pullman

Everything means something. — Philip Pullman

... it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there. (p.23) — Alain De Botton

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love. — Luc De Clapiers

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. — Euripides