Allardyce Bower Quotes & Sayings

I gave him that watch, back when I spent weekends with Daddy's AMEX in my wallet and eight inches of Vic in my hand. — Alessandra Torre

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. — G.K. Chesterton

It was Cinder's voice. "Hello, dearest Aunt Levana," she said, her tone light and taunting. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to make sure I had your full attention. First, allow me to congratulate you. It seems you finally have everything you've always wanted. Now, it's my turn." There — Marissa Meyer

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. — P.J. Harvey

In the early Middle Ages the dominant form of political organization in Western Europe was the Germanic kingdom, and the German kingdom was in some ways the complete antithesis of the modern state. (p. 13) — Joseph Reese Strayer

Warfare is light. Warfare and conflict are the energies with which this world functions. To claim otherwise is to claim your very veins are not filled with blood, to claim that your heart is still and silent. You knew this once. Once in the hills of this country you understood that to wage war was to be alive, to shed blood was to bask in the light of the sun. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. — Amos Bronson Alcott

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie. — Clarence Darrow

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. — Ayn Rand