The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christopher McCandless
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CYRIL CONNOLLY The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE