B Thory Andr S Quotes & Sayings

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. — Daniel Ellsberg

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said. — Gregory Maguire

This life, it isn't the end for us. Whatever happens, my soul will find yours; it always has. — Lynn Vroman

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities. — Michael Ondaatje

The moment I stepped out the front door I was faced again with Manhattan. There it was, oh splendid ship of concrete and steel, aluminum, glass and electricity, forging forever up the dark river. (The hudson - like a river of oil, filthy and rich, gleaming with silver lights.) Manhattan at twilight: floating gardens of tender neon, the lavender towers where each window glittered at sundown with reflected incandescence, where each crosstown street became at evening a gash of golden fire, and the endless flow of the endless traffic on the West Side Highway resembled a luminous necklace strung round the island's shoulders. — Edward Abbey

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it? — Yiyun Li