Rebecca Eaton Quotes

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Silent

• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Diversity
  • Messengers

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Small
  • Goals

• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Black

• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

  

  Aristotle
  • Strange
  • Circle
  • Origin

• This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Woman
  • Heritage

• Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

  

  Socrates
  • Should
  • Kicks
  • Resent

• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Trying
  • Used
  • Income

• When giants fought, ants were crushed.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fight
  • Giants
  • Ants

• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Country
  • Mind

• I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Judgment
  • Depends