The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -Rene Descartes

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." -Desmond Tutu

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
-Isaac Newton

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. - Truman Capote

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. - Andrew Jackson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
~Aristotle~

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." -Isaac Newton

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. - Richard M. Nixon

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." -Mark Twain

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. - P. J. O'Rourke

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. - Mohandas Gandhi

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. - Joseph Campbell

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. - Jane Haddam

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. - Blaise Pascal

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. - Blaise Pascal

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. - Elie Wiesel

That guy asked for our help. We lit him on fire. You'll understand if I'm not in a particularly social mood. - quote from the film "Cabin Fever"

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. - Tiberius

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations

I'm not sure who's quote that is but I love it

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. - Wallace Stevens

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

~Esther Hicks

It's ok to be a glow stick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey

You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey. Because consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer. And all I ask in return is the opportunity to do my work. And they won't allow it... because I raise issues. - a quote from the movie "Being John Malkovich"

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. - Stephen King

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"
~Ludwig Van Beethoven~

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it. - Bryan Batt

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - E.E. Cummings

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. - Redd Foxx

"You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity." -Bobby Seale

If the King doesn't move how do you expect his subjects won't follow - Lelouch Vi Britannia

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

"It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be." - Kevin Flynn

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. - James Madison

"Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them"
~Lou Holtz~

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are"
~John Wooden~

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"
~Author Unknown~

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"
~Bertrand Russell~

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I steal from every movie ever made. - Quentin Tarantino

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? - Langston Hughes

I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable - Sergio Mattarella (President of Italy since 2015)

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire

sometimes even the greatest minds get lost

Government is not show business. - Warren Beatty

"Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding fault in your life instead of fixing the faults in their own lifes"

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. - Gordon R. Dickson

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. - Stanley Kubrick

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

May you get to Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you're dead - quote from "Road To Perdition" (Paul Newman's character)

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.- Seneca

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. - Aldous Huxley

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. - Socrates

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends. - Cornelius Vanderbilt

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. - Peter Steele

There cannot be a crisis next week my schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name. - Narendra Modi (RIP - victims of Manchester, England attack)

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. - James Madison

The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it. - quote from the film "Three Kings"

That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying. - quote from the film "Midnight In Paris"

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

"I drank what?" -Socrates, 399 B.C.E.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey

I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey

Sooner or later, different scares people. - quote from the film "The Accountant"

Everyone is hiding something. At least there is honor among thieves - quote from the film "The Accountant"

Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves. - -The First History of Man, a fictional book of the Mad Max universe (also it's the quote on screen at the end of Mad Max: Fury Road)

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. - Harriet Tubman

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. - Vinoba Bhave

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man - George Bernard Shaw

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. - Sir Walter Raleigh

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. - Albert Camus

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.-Anne Sexton

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools-Ernest Hemingway

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. - Mahatma Gandhi

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. - Will Rogers

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. - Stephen Hawking

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. - Nelson Mandela

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke

Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. - Betty Williams

Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. - Betty Williams

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker

Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. - Carl Sagan

The sun is gone, but I have a light. - Kurt Cobain

As an artist, I want a reaction. - Chester Bennington (RIP)

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire

I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live. - Oscar Wilde

"Never enter a business deal with anyone who has less than yourself" -Dr. Anton Zsandor Lavey-

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. - Ralph Ellison

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. -Aleister Crowley-

Humanity evolves when we realize that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do. - Radhanath Swami

A lie told often enough becomes the truth -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)-

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense - Franz Kafka (from his book Metamorphosis)

Quote of the Day: Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. - quote by (the brilliant) David Cronenberg

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. - George Ball

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. -Karl Marx-

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - E.E. Cummings

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't. - Phil Klay

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. - Pauline Hanson

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein