Adrianople Group Quotes & Sayings

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. — Gore Vidal

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote. — Voltaire

I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can. — P. J. O'Rourke

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people. — Jon Stewart

Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [ ... ] - Caradoc — P.C. Cast

I ate ants. They weren't that bad. — Leslie Hope

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices — Kim C. Steadman

If the characters are not wicked, the book is. We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the giant. Stories with fiery serpents and leviathans and sermons in whirlwinds. Stories in which murderers are blinded on donkeys and become heroes. Stories with dens of lions and fiery furnaces and lone prophets laughing at kings and priests and demons. Stories with heads on platters. Stories with courage and crosses and redemption. Stories with resurrections. — G.K. Chesterton

The best way to transform ourselves is by transforming our consciousness and awareness. — Debasish Mridha