Amandina Lovasbolt Quotes & Sayings

The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste. — Cormac McCarthy

Where did the terror come from? Not from the violence; violence gives release from terror. Not from Leroy's wrongness, for if he were altogether wrong, an evil man, the matter would be simple and no cause for terror. No, it came from Leroy's goodness, that he is a decent, sweet-natured man who would help you if you needed help, go out of his way and bind up a stranger's wounds. No, the terror comes from the goodness and what lies beneath, some fault in the soul's terrain so deep that all is well on top, evil grins like good, but something shears and tears deep down and the very ground stirs beneath one's feet. — Walker Percy

I judge people very quickly. — James McAvoy

Since history is the drama of genius, its relentless surprise tempts us into designing boundaries for it, searching through it for patterns of repetition. Historians sometimes speak of trends, of cycles, of currents, of forces, as though they were describing natural events. In doing so they must dehistoricize themselves, taking a perspective from the timeless, believing that each observed history is always of others and never of themselves, that each observation is of history but not itself historical. — James P. Carse

What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books? — Gao Xingjian

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win. — Nate Parker

-loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny) — Anna Carey

The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are 'routine' scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts. — Martin Rees

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it. — Dick Cheney

Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound. — Mark Helprin

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them. — Guy Gavriel Kay

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it. — Nell Carter