Vanquest Quotes & Sayings

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. — Gustave Meyrink

May the heart of Jesus be loved everywhere. — Pope Leo XII

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. — Salvador Dali

You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of the West was like granite and the West did not yield. Today, this nuclear threat still hangs on both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society's rules unknowingly, and no one would hold you accountable for it. You would mistakenly enter private residences, go to concerts to which you had not been invited, eat at community banquets where you could only guess the community's identity when they started giving speeches. Had you behaved like this in your own country, you would have been taken for a liar or a fool. But the improbable ways of a foreigner are accepted. Far from your home, you used to taste the pleasure of being mad without being alienated, of being an imbecile without renouncing your intelligence, of being an impostor without culpability. — Edouard Leve

When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. — Frederick Lenz

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things. — Jennifer Carpenter

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness. — Han Suyin

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written. — William Faulkner

I do what I can with what I've got, but if I don't GET then I can't DO. — Joseph A. Coley