Thunder In February Quotes & Sayings

The Muslim East has been in a defensive posture for centuries. Take Turkey. For a period of close to two hundred years, we've been living through phases of vital self-defense and security. In such a society, a fortress mentality naturally arises. If today we've lost the concept of freedom, the reason is that we're living in a state of siege." Suad — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter. — Don DeLillo

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. — Samuel Johnson

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think it gave us the freedom to be more creative and do things the way we wanted to do them, so if a label liked it that was cool and if they didn't like it fine. Ultimately it was up to us to sink or swim and there was nobody telling us what direction to go in. I think that made the entire record more diverse. — Jason C. Miller

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. — Vladimir Nabokov

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde

Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life. — Debasish Mridha

Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so. — Thomas S. Monson

Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa