Tivanathi Quotes & Sayings

I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle, — Suzanne Collins

Can you remember, Acte ... how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the world had grown bare and colorless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our Nero from us, from you and me. Isn't splendid to think that we can show them they haven't succeeded? They have smashed his statues into splinters, erased his name from all the inscriptions, they even replaced his head on that huge statue in Rome with the peasant head of old Vespasian. Isn't it fine to teach them that all that hasn't been of the slightest use? Granted that they have been successful for a few years. For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now, with our Nero, all these things are back again. — Lion Feuchtwanger

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything. — Lykke Li

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. — John Jay Chapman

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt. — Dwight Yoakam

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms. — Susan Sontag

And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much. — Charles Bukowski

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. — Alfred Noyes

How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result — George MacDonald

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season. — George Herbert