George Sterling Quotes
As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
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There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.
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If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.
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Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.
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I was outside when I heard a bang and that's when the plane did a whirly-down to the ground. After that I saw a wing come down.
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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
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Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry.
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)
