Ranallis Of Andersonville Quotes & Sayings

Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin - which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in this life but eternal punishment in the next. — Sam Harris

Painters ... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. — William Hazlitt

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. — Dennis Weaver

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother. — Marie Lu

Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world. — Alan McGlashan

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. — Moliere

I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we have a habit of writing fictional futures for ourselves, although perhaps today we incline more to put ourselves into a film. We screen in our minds hypotheses about how we might behave, about what might happen to us; and these novelistic or cinematic hypotheses often have very much more effect on how we actually do behave, when the real future becomes the present, than we generally allow. — John Fowles

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. — Todd Gitlin

The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution. — Steven Erikson

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. — Alan Alda

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom. — Jean Lescure

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. — Keith Donohue

I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. — Peter Sagal