Breacher Shotgun Quotes & Sayings

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae. — Christopher Hitchens

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein

No one can take the power within you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know this feeling, when the temperature, just right, makes it so I do not know my own movements in the water. My skin has no sensation to compare with anything outside of its own climate. — Sheila Myers

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. — Walid Muallem

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. — Thomas Mann

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. — Pierre Corneille

Michael felt as if his heart might burst. With the death of the council he had felt as though he had lost everything that mattered to him, but here in his arms, he found the last piece of hope he had left in the world. We have to go back and help Gabe. — Wendy Owens

Doesn't just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is for us to be their do-over. Their second chance at life. — Eileen Cook

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ... — Benjamin Franklin

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable. — Graham Greene

And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes
a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way. — George MacDonald