Creusa Medea Quotes & Sayings

As we become familiar with something, we think about it more in terms of the use we put it to and less in terms of what it looks like and what it is made of. — Steven Pinker

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together? — Jessica Khoury

Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you. — Stephen King

Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the road. The most hideous hallmark of all was the blackened patch of ground in the center of town. It always meant the same thing, a destroyed mosque. The goal of ethnic cleansing was not simply to get rid of Muslims; it was to destroy all traces that they had ever lived in Bosnia. The goal was to kill history. If you want to do that, then you must rip out history's heart, which in the case of Bosnia's Muslim community meant the destruction of its mosques. Once that was done, you could reinvent the past in whatever distorted form you wanted, like Frankenstein.

p. 85 — Peter Maass

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself. — Eloisa James

The sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned. — Harold B. Lee

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. — Tony Snow

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things. — Richard Allen Epstein

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die. — John Updike

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud