Alesjaure Quotes & Sayings

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul. — Victor Hugo

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not. — E. M. Forster

There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict. — Andrew Cohen

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history. — Laura Anne Gilman

I often say flippantly that the short story is ... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book. — Bobbie Ann Mason