The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941
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I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverb