quotes about Arcadia

last updated: November 28, 2023

The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
-- Alcaeus

Source : Alcæus, Fragment LXXXVI. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.
-- Andrew Ryan

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“Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.”
“Time is the most valuable asset you donâ€™t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or donâ€™t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .”
“No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.”
“I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.”
“Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.”
“...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.”
“The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.”

Source : Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).
“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”
“Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.”