Bourjaily The Violated Quotes & Sayings

Where the rivers come, there shall they return. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Did you ever hear him in Lohengrin?' demanded Pardoe, taking the ends of his own moustache with both hands, as if about to tear it off and reveal himself in a new identity. — Anthony Powell

Me has a perfectly structured face, beautiful lips, and eyes greener — Katy Evans

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win. — Mickey Drexler

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld

You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious. — Andrew Bacevich

Better late than ever. — American Proverb.

I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me. — William Shakespeare

None of the dead come back. But some stay. — John Of Patmos

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. — Kurt Vonnegut

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation. — John Stahl-Wert

He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close. — Chuck Wendig

In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought. — Theodore Dalrymple

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart. — Ann Voskamp

Violence of any kind, once it starts, is like fucking a gorilla-you ain't done till
the gorilla's done. — Craig Ferguson