Sirenes De Mako Quotes & Sayings

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law. — Chauncey Depew

You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world. — Anne Lamott

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely. Eventually, — Edward Hirsch

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know. — Polly Horvath

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away. — Peter Thiel

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting. — Bill Simmons

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. — Sergei Lukyanenko

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans. — Andrew Sullivan

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm McLaren

In the case of money, subjective use-value and subjective exchange-value coincide. Both are derived from objective exchange-value, for money has no utility other than that arising from the possibility of obtaining other economic goods in exchange for it. — Ludwig Von Mises

Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis. — Ivan M. Granger

You feel perfect," Hunter grunted, slamming up and wringing a strangled moan from me. "You are perfect for me, only me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other. — Katherine Mansfield

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic. — Sterling Beaumon