Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Richard Hofstadter

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

Rebecca West

The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

Rick Riordan

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.

Rick Riordan

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

Rick Riordan

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

William Samuel Johnson

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

William S. Burroughs

The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

William S. Burroughs

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Anton LaVey

All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what's going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Robert Collier

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Sarah Dessen

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

James Altucher

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Emile M. Cioran

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Alan Cohen

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

Joely Fisher

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

Marshall McLuhan

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

Kate DiCamillo

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Lev Grossman

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Pope Francis

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.