The Murders In Rue Morgue Quotes & Sayings

The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish
to remind themselves and others of their own prowess. — Peter Senge

I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle. — Sean Pertwee

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe

They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can't pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate. — Lee Kuan Yew

To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly - is to have the best appreciation of its lustre - a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. — Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The — Thich Nhat Hanh

I want to always keep going. I don't want to ever stop. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Call Audi. I may need the A3 sooner than I thought." "It's ready, Mr. Grey." "Oh. Good. — E.L. James

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. — Tony Bennett

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. — Edgar Allan Poe

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. — John W. Snow

My sin grew sleek on my excesses. — Augustine Of Hippo

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. — Charles R. Swindoll

Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens. — Rondal Partridge

By undue profundity, we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue — Edgar Allan Poe