Whats So Special About Him Quotes & Sayings

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. — Henry David Thoreau

You don't get to set me on fire and leave me like a pile of ashes. — Nina G. Jones

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight. — Skylar Grey

When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic. — Dalai Lama

Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive. — Gloria Smith

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. — Edgar Allan Poe

Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous - dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say. — James Baldwin

It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I may never fly - in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time. I cherish them. — Anton Szandor LaVey

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. — Teddy Sears

Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism arose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master Race evolved in Germany following World War I. In such desperate times, the vanquished race would perish without a doctrine that restored hope and pride. Islamic fundamentalism ascends from the same landscape of despair and possesses the same tremendous and potent appeal. What exactly is this despair? It is the despair of freedom. The dislocation and emasculation experienced by the individual cut free from the familiar and comforting structures of the tribe and the clan, the village and the family. It is the state of modern life. The — Steven Pressfield

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. — Jethro Tull