Takimoto Syndrome Quotes & Sayings

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. — Ramsay MacMullen

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall. — David Gemmell

If the devil was going to come, I expected to see the myth of him. A demon with an asphalt shine. He'd be fury. A chill. A bad cough. Cujo at the car window, a ticket at the Creepshow booth, a leap into the depth of night. — Tiffany McDaniel

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. — Edgar Allan Poe

I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way. — Mishka

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. — Samuel Johnson

The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones. — Conn Iggulden

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. — Mary Shelley

On some level, although we can't handle the pain of acknowledging it, Good Friday happens every day. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if she could fall forward, lightly, softly, and land somewhere else. Far, far from here. — Julia Quinn

You may house their bodies but not their souls, — Kahlil Gibran

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it. — Jeff Hawkins

Lily, I have known you all my life, and I have watched you grow up from my sister's annoying best friend who followed me around everywhere I went into the woman who I love with all my heart and all my soul. You are my best friend, my soul mate and the wife that I will love and cherish for the rest of my days. You are my every heart beat and the reason that I breathe. I love you. I love you forever. I love you beyond forever. — Susie Kaye Lopez