H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

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• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Act

• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • American

• I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Time
  • Now
  • Decade

• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Thought
  • Inside

• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• I'd like to be more spontaneous.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Like
  • More
  • Spontaneous

• When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Pizza

• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Day
  • Dreams
  • Socialism

• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  

  Tan Le
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wake Up

• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• Radicalisation thrives on economic insecurity and exclusion. To create stakeholders in a peaceful world, people need opportunities to fulfil their potential and build good lives. Helping them is a powerful message of respect.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Character
  • Prince
  • Hamlet

• You can play the game and you can act out the part.Though you know it wasn't written for you.But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart,Ashamed of playing the fool?One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice.Oh, father and mother,and sister and brother,If it feels nice, don't think twice.

  

  James Taylor
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Power
  • Value

• Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

  

  Chris Colfer
  • School
  • Night
  • Morning

• The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

  

  Georgette Heyer
  • Pain
  • Ending
  • Idyll

• I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Teach

• When you're a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you're just hoping that they're happy you were cast.

  

  Andrea Gabriel
  • Show
  • Prove
  • Guest

• Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft