Biffing Quotes & Sayings

History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but were discreetly silent while our Colonel William B. Thompson in the same year contributed a million dollars to the anti-Bolsheviks in Russia. As allies of the Soviets in World War II we praised and cheered communist guerrilla tactics when the Russians used them against the Nazis during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; we denounce the same tactics when they are used by communist forces in different parts of the world against us. The opposition's means, used against us, are always immoral and our means are always ethical and rooted in the highest of human values. — Saul D. Alinsky

Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along. — Bryant McGill

We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. Inside each of us, I was pretty sure, was a place for the other. Nothing that had happened and nothing that would ever happen would make that less true. — Cristina Henriquez

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As my friend and I talked, a homeless man sang just across the street from us, and we caught his voice in the snatches as the wind came over in gusts. — Teju Cole

I think sometimes there is no right thing. — Rosamund Hodge

Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. — William Faulkner

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. — Samuel Johnson

There are many elder sons and elder daughters who are lost while still at home. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace. — John Muir

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. — Rick Atkinson

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it. — Scott A. Butler