Eric Van Lustbader Quotes

Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne’s heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He’d never make it out with all of them in tow.

Eric Van Lustbader

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• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Kids
  • See

• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Kid
  • Needed
  • Belong

• I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Me
  • Child

• We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Need
  • Possible
  • Save

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Attention
  • Bodies
  • Our Lives

• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

  

  Plato
  • Bodies
  • Bound
  • Oyster

• Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Soul
  • Friendship
  • Bodies

• Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Certain
  • Bodies
  • Powers

• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Killing
  • Bodies

• Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • People
  • Path
  • Understood

• But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Baby
  • Save

• I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Limits
  • Capitalism
  • Needed

• Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Man
  • Waste
  • Save

• I never like to think that we can't win a game, but this was certainly our toughest challenge of the season. We match up well with them, but we needed to have a big second half -- and we did.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Half

• Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fall
  • Save
  • Abyss

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Children
  • Afraid
  • Against

• Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne’s heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He’d never make it out with all of them in tow.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Needed
  • Save
  • Bodies