Precursory Quotes & Sayings

Why should anything exist at all, you might ask?
Existence didn't just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of possibility; a possibility that something
anything
such as the imaginal, might exist.
Why are we here at all? Because this was a possibility, and we are the living proof that there must have been such a possibility. So, you might say that existence, in one form or another, was even more than more likely, it was inevitable. — Etienne De L'Amour

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use. — Hal Finney

Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects. — Ben Shapiro

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn't know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out. — Cole Gibsen

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, — Harper Lee

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble. — Rod Serling

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company. — Fiona Gubelmann