Simon Stimson Quotes & Sayings

I promised them that if they got my son out, I would show this city how a desert girl dies. - Shira — Alwyn Hamilton

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. — Thornton Wilder

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher. — Liu Jingmin

When sunlight does to the surface of water, music does to the spirit. — Marty Rubin

Under presupposition of free will each human action would be an inexplicable miracle - an effect without cause. And if one dares the attempt to make such a liberum arbitrium indifferentiae imaginable to oneself, one will soon become aware that here the understanding quite genuinely comes to a standstill: it has no form for thinking of such a thing. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole. — Thomas Sowell

Every secret has a expiration date... — Josiyah Martin

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. — Robert Redford

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world. — Psy

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. — Charles De Lint

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. — Leonard Woolley

The world runs on strangers coping. — David Mitchell

By the time I wanted to leave, it would be too late. She was a siren. — Ransom Riggs

That's what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
-Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN — Thornton Wilder

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson