We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
We rise by lifting others.
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.
I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.
My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters. "