Rotondaro Obituary Quotes & Sayings

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant. — Diana Trilling

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. — Frederick Lenz

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do. — Brian Greene

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'. — Emma Goldman

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine. — D.H. Lawrence

What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown. — Reza Aslan

It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it. — Steve Maraboli

Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important. — Allan Lokos

Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you. — Auliq Ice

His words are the essence of truth ... Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry

I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane. — Kacy Hill

Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes! — Iwane Matsui

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses. — Paulo Coelho

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life. — Thomas Mann