Ozymandias Exploded Quotes & Sayings

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it.
A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. — James Salter

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. — Michele Bachmann

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. — Hans F. Sennholz

Not the dreams where we are hunted by the monsters, but the dreams where we are the monsters. We raise bloody hands to the sky and scream, not from fear, but from joy. The pure joy of slaughter. The cathartic moment when we plunge our hands into the hot blood of our enemies and there is no civilized thought to stop us from dancing on their graves. — Laurell K. Hamilton

But their roots went deep, bound them together in a collective memory. With each new arrival, they pieced together more of their past, built more of their future. — Ryan Graudin

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it. — Frederick Lenz

In the Ways, ji connotes skill and ri connotes inspiration. When one sees into the underlying principles, one's performance becomes inspired. — Kenneth Kushner

A culture that blames the rest of the world or the rest of the galaxy for its ills is likely to stoop to anything. One — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Let your inner queen's voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you'll do her proud. — Queen Latifah

Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said — Mark Twain

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way. — Lisa Kleypas