8de Lidded Quotes & Sayings

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner. — Kirby Page

And as they have nothing but their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints will have no existence among them; they will be delivered from all those quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. Of course they will. Neither — Plato

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director. — William Monahan

Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot."
"You found a pen?"
"No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it."
Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop. — Linda Howard

He was safe because she would never really give all of herself to him." "I — Karin Slaughter

A nightmare, a memory. A thing can be both.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches. — Emery Lord

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. — Balthus

Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough? — Michael Chabon

Compassion brings us closer to each other. — Debasish Mridha

Now the circus is open. Now you may enter. — Erin Morgenstern

I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger. — Marc-Andre Hamelin

You don't need money to be kind, but you cannot be kind without a heart. — Debasish Mridha

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. — P. J. O'Rourke

Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone. — Allen Tate

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. — Okakura Kakuzo