Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not of them have a lot of time for me), and that's because I respect anyone with principles about food.

River Cottage Veg Every Day!

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

The Tenants of Moonbloom

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.' 'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog.

Tricked

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Trapped

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Be sure that head and heart were laid In wisdom down, content to die. Be sure he faced the Starless Sky Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid. (“The Passing of Bierce”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Think a Second Time

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

Or sit they girt by laws unknown Whereto the senses serve as bars – With fire of unrecorded stars That light a heaven not our own? (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and m...

The Third Reich At War

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Ten Things I Love About You

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Up in the Air

You know how to shoot?"- Emma "Yes. My dad taught me everything about gun safety. He was an expert." - Heather "What happened to him?" -Shanna "He was...shot." -Heather

The Undead Next Door

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.

The Viscount Who Loved Me

...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

No one dreamed them up. No one needed to. The vampire clawing at the window, the werewolf prowling the moor, the hags at the crossroads – they lurked here already. Some nightmares are ancient, as old as civilization. Some are older still.

Vortex

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

What Are You Afraid Of?