Quotes - Daniel Buckley (Rochdale, L2, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily.
Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on Earth”
― Daniel Peter Buckley, Heaven Earth and Time

tags: ancient-greece, ancient-legends, ancient-wisdom, deities

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#2

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

113 likes

#3

“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go."
Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from
Heaven Earth and Time by D P BUCKLEY”
― Daniel Peter Buckley, Heaven Earth and Time

tags: ancient-greece, ancient-legends, ancient-mesopotamia, ancient-wisdom

3 likes

#4

“Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant.”
― Daniel Peter Buckley

tags: atlantis, frost, plato, solon

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#5

“Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestess
looks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with
Heaven Earth and Time.”
― Daniel Peter Buckley

tags: earth, heaven, time

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#6

“Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath,

SICANIA RISING”
― Daniel P Buckley

tags: fiction, historical

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#7

“Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.”
― Sabah Carrim, Humeirah

tags: isolation, loneliness, opinion

12 likes

#8

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13924 likes

#9

“A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.”
― Terry Pratchett

409 likes

#10

“She had no taste for the psychological, and nothing but scorn for the erotic. What she loved was a story which began with crime and ended with a detection - a story which kept you wondering who did it, how it was done, and when the doing was going to be laid bare to the light of day. ~ The Middle of Things ”
― Joseph Smith Fletcher

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#11

“So they became superpatriots. And to prove themselves right-minded, they were more than willing to sacrifice the lives of others, even their fellow Jews. They were like the Vichy government in France, collaborators who held on to their influence and position at the expense of their fellow countrymen.”
― Kirk Douglas, I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist

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#12

“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”
― Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

tags: mistakes

112 likes

#13

“And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer

tags: boundaries, love

39 likes

#14

“The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.”
― Kirk Douglas, The Ragman's Son

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#15

“Of course, she had to put up with being insulted by the cats at times, but she insulted them back just as loudly and in the same language.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

5 likes

#16

“There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character;
Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate.

- Medea”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

tags: prejudice

5 likes

#17

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies

389 likes

#18

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

1060 likes

#19

“May her moccasins make tracks in many snows that are yet to come”
― Frank B. Linderman, Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows

6 likes

#20

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93738 likes

#21

“...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
”
― Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems

66 likes

#22

“But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. ”
― Billy Collins

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