Quotes of: New-generation Keyword

They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was c...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Ezio considered the new century they were in - the sixteenth. And only near its beginning. What would unfold during it, he could only guess; he knew that, at his age, he would not see very much more of it. More discoveries, and more wars, no doubt. B...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threat...

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to l...

Six Memos For The Next Millennium

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower...

The Shock of the New

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James...

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold hands across the sea of time, joining together the ones who went before and th...

Theophilos

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulatio...

Kafka on the Shore

General Sternwood: You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, ba...

The Big Sleep

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

Richard J. Codey

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Kenny Loggins

It's a brave new world.

Howard Kurtz

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Vera Farmiga

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

French

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The General's Daughter

I’ll gyrate my hips at irate guests to generate income for the generations.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Killosophy

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

The Roman General: A Novel

The best government is that which governs least.

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