Gazing Into The Abyss Quotes

1. "She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble."
Author: Alistair MacLean

2. "...the TV set. Some predicted that this peculiar contraption was going to change our lives forever and turn us all into creatures of the future, like the Americans"
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3. "Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time."
Author: Cassandra Clare

4. "Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak."
Author: E. Stanley Jones

5. "Briec removed hisclothes and slipped into bed with her, wrapping his arms aroundher waist and snuggling her from behind."Izzy?""That's just ridiculous," he growled.She glanced at him over her shoulder. "It could have beenworse. I could have said Gwenvael.""And forced me to kill my own brother."
Author: G.A. Aiken

6. "To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is."
Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan

7. "Few things hurt more than doubt creeping into a life of conviction.Go back to the last sure knowledge you have—the last revelation you know to be true and stand your ground. Stand firm and wait.The Universe will send you aid and clarity.Even if you can't see it at first."
Author: Jaime Buckley

8. "I startled her into flight this afternoon, my hand barely brushing against the dry cattails where she was quietly building her nest.Rather than scorn my carelessness, she blessed me with a soft breast feather that drifted from the sky"
Author: Kate Mullane Robertson

9. "Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?"Glisan bristled. "Yes.""What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a maturities schedule!"But they didn't. With all the focus on deals and earnings- with finance group's transformation into a profit center rather than a division to support the business- the workday, boring details had been sloughed off.p. 560"
Author: Kurt Eichenwald

10. "To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood."
Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

11. "Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position."
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller

12. "Every war and every conflict between human beings has happened because of some disagreement about names. It is such an unnecessary foolishness, because just beyond the arguing there is a long table of companionship set and waiting for us to sit down. What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one, but it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these time-and-space personalities, from a light, and when we praise, we are pouring them back in."
Author: Rumi

13. "A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted."
Author: Stefan Collini

14. "Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality."
Author: Steve Maraboli

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