Jon Krakauer Quotes

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

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• I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Heaven
  • See
  • Electricity

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Project

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Government

• But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Heaven

• When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Project

• The albums 'Heaven On Earth' and 'Runaway Horses' and 'Live Your Life Be Free' were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio - lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That's what those albums remind me of.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Free

• For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Heaven

• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Up
  • Song
  • Strong

• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Truth

• When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Heaven
  • Ignorance
  • Wickedness

• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Know
  • Him
  • Portrait

• [On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Music
  • Power
  • Dance

• The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Fire
  • Coffee
  • Piled

• I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Heaven
  • Project
  • Focused