A Fatal Inversion Quotes & Sayings

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between. — Amy Tan

I manage fine with no others around;
I cannot manage without you.
My heart bears your brand,
it won't wander away from you.
Reason's eye blurs with your wine
heaven's wheel spins under your thumb Pleasure's nose follows your lead,
I cannot manage without you. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Ach, sure being beaten doesn't matter a whole lot in Ireland; we're good at it. But not to have fought at all, now that would have been a tragedy. — A.G. Lyttle

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager

For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal. — Kenneth Keniston

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives. — Aidan Gillen

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples. — Jane Austen

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. — Maria Mitchell