Sublunar Quotes & Sayings

Under the sad end-of-days spell of the smoky dusk and the waning year, of the moon and its ostentatious superiority to the trashy, petty claptrap of his sublunar existence, why does he even hesitate? The Kamizakis are your enemies whether you do or not, so you might as well do it. Yes, yes, if you can still do something, you must do it - that is the golden rule of sublunar existence, whether you are a worm cut in two or a man with a prostate like a billiard ball. If you can still do something, then you must do it! Anything living can figure that out. — Philip Roth

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you. — Donald L. Hicks

Is it really 'pro bono' if a lawyer takes your case in exchange for explosives?
-Captain Hartung — Howard Tayler

The evening being come, I return home and go to my study; at the entrance I pull off my peasant-clothes, covered with dust and dirt, and put on my noble court dress, and thus becomingly re-clothed I pass into the ancient courts of the men of old, where, being lovingly received by them, I am fed with that food which is mine alone; where I do not hesitate to speak with them, and to ask for the reason of their actions, and they in their benignity answer me; and for four hours I feel no weariness, I forget every trouble, poverty does not dismay, death does not terrify me; I am possessed entirely by those great men. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. — Thomas Aquinas

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — J.K. Rowling

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay. — Hal Ashby

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice ... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God. — Jeffrey R. Holland