Compensable Consequence Quotes & Sayings

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. — Greg Mortenson

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research. — Orson Scott Card

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be. — Jenny Slate

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. — Tom Lehrer

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president. — John McCain

The visuals and the audio, could stand by themselves in a way. But the whole idea of the thing, is that they would exist together. So I think together, they're way more of a stronger thing. You could listen to just the music, or just watch the video, but I think it would really mean ... obviously it would just be half the experience. — Panda Bear

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. — Benito Perez Galdos

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country. — William Howard Taft

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing. — Sarah Manguso

Jones's faithful old friend and chronicler O. B. Keeler, now fifty-five and still covering the sport for the Atlanta Journal, was on hand to witness his victory and interviewed Byron in the locker room afterward. The unfailingly literate Keeler mentioned that Byron's back nine charge had put him in mind of Lord Byron's poem about Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His headline the next day read: LORD BYRON WINS MASTERS. — Mark Frost

Kindly answer my question. Am I late? — E. M. Forster

Don't trust anyone who promises you a new life. Pick-up artists, lifestyle gurus, pyramid-scheme face cream evangelists, Weight Watchers coaches: These people make their living off of your failures. — Lindy West

First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace — Iain M. Banks