Thanatos Build Quotes & Sayings

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe. — Alexis Tsipras

Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy. — Agatha Christie

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery"
~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) — Jim Harrison

The gospel should meet people at the point of their deepest confusion and at the height of their loftiest ideals. What matters most is that we bring Christ into every moment of human history and every point of human concern. — Christopher W. Brooks

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. — Nancy Pelosi

Learning from mistakes helps prevent the repetition of negative patterns. — John Gray

He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it. — G.K. Chesterton

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. — Barack Obama

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage. — Conan O'Brien

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts. — Herman Wouk

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark — Franz Kafka

The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next. When one does this with sincerity, hearts mend.
If one truly wants to purify his or her heart and root out disease, there must be total sincerity and conviction that these cures are effective.. — Hamza Yusuf

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. — Yukichi Fukuzawa

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game. — Gore Vidal