Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
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Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and denned; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
