Opticus Altice Quotes & Sayings

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. — Luis Sepulveda

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. — Mary Schmich

The Huicholes were dangerous because they were not tainted by the fear of death. They accepted life as something caught between the sun and the earth in which man could only participate briefly. No amount of defeat could make them regard themselves as inferior. They had none of the fear of losing their beliefs that drives modern man to devise fantastic schemes. Above all else, the Huicholes were dangerous because they believed that their hour of triumph had not yet arrived. In the celebration that would follow, centuries of occupation would disappear, like dust scattered by the wind. — Warren Eyster

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly. — Malcolm Gladwell

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. — Aravind Adiga

We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them. — Henning Mankell

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood. — Neil MacGregor

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand. — Zoe Helene

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses. — Steven Magee

Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one that their parents belong to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained glass, the best music: when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing, compared to the matter of heredity. This is an unmistakable fact; nobody could seriously deny it. Yet people with full knowledge of the arbitrary nature of this heredity, somehow manage to go on believing in their religion, often with such fanaticism that they are prepared to murder people who follow a different one. — Richard Dawkins

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces. — John Logan

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off. — Matthew Norman