Shadow Of Israphel Quotes & Sayings

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

Our genetic endowments, coupled with many early environmental impacts, establish our childhood intelligence. An environment lacking a sufficient level of stimulation stifles our mental development. An environment with a sufficient level of stimulation enables our genetically different abilities to flower, and at the same time often sets into motion positive social and cultural pressures that reinforce our improvement. — Shlomo Breznitz

He looked at the celebrant. 'Can I kiss her now? — K.M. Golland

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence. — Albert Camus

To make matters worse, I was fucking freezing. I'd left my hoodie at the gym, thinking it would help my cause to show off my body. It was pretty much the only thing I had going for me. Instead, I just felt like a fucking eejit, knowing that it was too cold for anyone but a total poser to be walking round in a t-shirt — R.J. Prescott

Power makes you lazy. — David Graeber

Sometimes I can still sleep it off, my fear. My dreams are gentle now even when they are about being mugged, robbed and knocked down, even when I am pressing my car key into a bit of yielding earth. But often in the afternoons I wake after a nap with an awful sense of its being over and that it never meant much; I never had a life. The valuable sweetness and the hard work are infected by the fact of death: they no longer seem to have been so wonderful, but they are all I had. And then I want to be comforted. I want my old, unthreatening forms of silence, and comedy-and-cowardice. I want breath and stories and the world. — Harold Brodkey

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is. — Hadewijch

A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good. — Charles Murray

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys. — Emma Thompson

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. — Peter Diamandis