quotes about Motifs

“I think God has a plan for all of us, and even if that plan includes Hell, its still a plan.”

“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”

“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.”

“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

“Everybody is talking today about the economy.”

“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”

“I think it's always really important for people to feel like they can connect with you.”

“Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.”

“Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.”

Source : "Christ in Literature: Being a Treasury of Choice Readings, in Prose and Verse". Book edited by J.B. Ford, p. 154, 1875.

“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.”

Source : "Geek Cheek". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.