A Breath Of Snow And Ashes Jamie Quotes & Sayings

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment ... — Arianna Huffington

It is not open to the cool bystander ... to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time. — Winston Churchill

He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder. — Larry McMurtry

Yeah, that. Keep the pot. Bweak it. Give it away. You can do what you want, Woan. You can do what you want because you fwee. Wememba that. And you beautiful, too. You should have the best of anything, but all I have to give you is a pot. He offered one last misshapen smile, or maybe that one was a frown. — Michael J. Sullivan

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. — Eliot Spitzer

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin

Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard. — Tony Kushner

He had squandered the two most precious treasures ever known: the gift of life and the gift of love. — Jackson Radcliffe

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead ... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that is the most powerful part of any man. Everybody has evil in them, and when a man is alive ... he will not abandon himself to many evil things. But when the duppy leaves the body, it no longer has anything to restrain it and it will do more terrible things than any man ever dreamed of.
- From 'Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica', Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 — Charles A. Cornell

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. — Robert Mapplethorpe

My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts ... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people. — Dick Gephardt

It's a lie, but it's the lie he needs. I'm going to hell. — Kiersten White

Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back. — Brent Weeks

This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology). — Richard Eyre

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left. — Ferenc Molnar