Quintal Log Quotes & Sayings

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Prophets have a way of dying by violence. — Frank Herbert

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences. — Alain Badiou

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler — Ira Levin

I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness. — Ingrid Weir

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another. — Aberjhani

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em. — Benny Goodman

Do it trembling if you must, but do it! — Emmet Fox

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting. — John Drake Robinson

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. — Camille Paglia

The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution — Bryant McGill

When Daddy didn't answer, I knew that something was wrong. Mariah thought back to that seemingly endless drive from Greenwich Village as she had rushed to New Jersey that night. — Mary Higgins Clark