Nikias Arndt Quotes & Sayings

I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time. — Jenna Coleman

There's a hell all right. It's just not where people say it is ... It's here. It's life, or it's what we turn life into, I guess. It's like we have to pass through all this painful stuff to get to where we're supposed to be, on the other side. — Patrick Carman

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.' — Robert Silverberg

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance. — George F. Will

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad. — Donna Summer

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through — Gloria Estefan

One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow. — Jeannette Haien

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. — Aristotle.