Unreconciled Stars Quotes & Sayings

She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality. — Anne Perry

And if the many sayings of the wise
Teach of submission I will not submit
But with a spirit all unreconciled
Flash an unquenched defiance to the stars. — Adelaide Crapsey

A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions. — Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes I long to forget ... It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. — Eva Hoffman

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems ... . I choose to call such a system a mess. — Russell L. Ackoff

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne. — Lionel Suggs

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. — Abhijit Naskar

With my wolf's hunger
I haul my lamb's body
down like a sail
I am like
the wretched boat
and the lascivious sea — Giuseppe Ungaretti

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause — Miguel De Cervantes

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

The most empowering condition of all is when the entire organization is aligned with its mission, and people's passions and purpose are in synch with each other. — Bill George Peter Sims

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. — Michael Caine

I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. — Herman Melville

When his wife died, for a while it was the end of the world, because part of him had died with her. As the long, slow recovery proceeded, he had gratefully and guiltily accepted the return of equilibrium. But he had not paid attention to a parallel phenomenon: his reversion to what he had been before his marriage. Though changed by whatever he had learned during their years together, and by whatever healing had taken place, he had fallen back into the old patterns of withdrawal. Nursing the dreadful wound of her absence, he had failed to notice the subtler void opening up within himself. — Michael D. O'Brien

When you're unknown, you do it for the love. — Radcliff Lance