"Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience."
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"Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil."
"When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it."
"I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side."
"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."
"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
"...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done."
"The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
"I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?"
"Well if God wanted a broken spirit out of me, He would get Hiswish. At this point in my life the only thing I could do was look up."
"How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life."
"When anybody asks me what time it is, I always say, “Yesterday, plus 24 hours."
"Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension."
"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."
"God is writing His story on the pages of our lives."
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
"twice I have lived forever in a smile"
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
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