Dave Gettleman Quotes & Sayings

Train like a beauty look like a beast — Cassey Ho

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. — Karen Marie Moning

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. — Gary Saul Morson

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. — Rita Mae Brown

And the moral high ground is a lovely place," Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. "It won't stop a missile, though. — James S.A. Corey

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. — Clarence Darrow

Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn't look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet, which felt dirty as well as cold. Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away from my flesh, separated by a millimeter of mortified space. — Jane Smiley

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. — Henning Mankell