107th Street Quotes & Sayings

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. — Samuel Johnson

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. — Harry Browne

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb. — Mira Grant

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. — Hermann Hesse

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to. (page 8) — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes