Rorimer Royals Quotes & Sayings

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you. — Sarah Dessen

The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect ... This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word. — Rudolf Karl Bultmann

your mother and I have always been close. — Jordan Sonnenblick

Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. — Stephen King

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. — Thomas Carlyle

Please," she whispered, her tears flowing unchecked. "Tell me what to say and I will say it gladly. If I have hurt your pride then take mine. I have no use for it without you. — Elizabeth Elliott

The strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful. one — Charles Bukowski

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy. — Edward Carpenter

(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read) — Pierre Bayard

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out. — Chris Hedges

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough. — Ernest Hemingway,

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement. — Harrison Schmitt

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years. — Mark Helprin