Brownings My Last Duchess Quotes & Sayings

Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I'm sure we haven't seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact. — Theodore Jerome Cohen

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them. — Margo Lanagan

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy. — Yitzhak Rabin

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology. — Jon Stewart

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen. — Stephen Graham

Only poetry isn't shit. — Roberto Bolano

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business. — Vivian Vande Velde

That I have such a wife, so obedient, — Marcus Aurelius

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best. — Solange Knowles

Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants. — Ofir Drori