Contraangulo Quotes & Sayings

So many secrets," he said. "The Dallas Aristocracy and their freaking secrets. — R.J. Scott

He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and his indignant betrothed, apparently feeling that he was too deeply sunk in depravity to be reclaimable, abandoned (for the time being, at all events) any further attempt to bring him to a sense of his iniquity. — Georgette Heyer

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut

Jack laughed, a quick, surprised chuckle. God, all I wanted these past months was the chance for you to get on my nerves. — Jane Seville

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility. — Charles M. Blow

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot. — Emily Dickinson

All the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade. — James Henry Gooding

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. — Plautus

I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you. — Paul Bloom

But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true! — George MacDonald

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also. — Tony Blair