Bistrogardencity Quotes & Sayings

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us. The liberation implied by such awareness is threefold. To understand one's own temporal determinism is to establish, above and beyond what one says and does, an analytic posture toward the present as history; it is to achieve, amid the earnest vanities of contemporary society, an easing humility; it is to mark off, as territory precious and imperiled, the moments and pursuits that are left to our choice. — Robert Grudin

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. — Robert Louis Stevenson

For a moment he thought Laurent wasn't going to do it. But in public, Laurent had no recourse to refusal. Laurent extended his hand. And then waited, palm outstretched, his eyes lifting to meet Damen's. Laurent said, 'Put it on me.' Every — C.S. Pacat

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison, — Pamela Smart

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible. — Seth Godin

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man. — Patrick Modiano

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic. — Jeff Cardoni

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us. — Alexandre Dumas-fils