112th Street Quotes & Sayings

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive. — Pat Barker

"I wouldn't get your hopes up," she says in a heavy-weighted tone. "Guys like Asher don't really look at girls like you. They're more my type. — Jessica Sorensen

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens. — Zac Goldsmith

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows. — Mike Carey

If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing — John Buchan

I'm a very caring person. — Alicia Keys

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane. — Anita Shreve

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year. — Alberto Salazar

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. — John Shelton Reed

There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long. — Caroline Myss

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. — Steve Jobs