Death Among Heroes Quotes & Sayings

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. — Jeff Bezos

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. — Joseph Butler

It isn't surprising if, as adults, when we first start to form relationships, we should devotedly go off in search of someone who can give us the all-encompassing, selfless love that we may once have known in childhood. Nor would it be surprising if we were to feel frustrated and in the end extremely bitter at how difficult it seems to be to find; at how seldom people understand what we need or care to help us properly. — Alain De Botton

We need useless theory more than ever today. — Slavoj Zizek

That's it, said Cavuto. You're too much of a nerd to be gay. I'm contacting the committee. They'll revoke your rainbow flag and you will not be permitted anywhere near the parade. — Christopher Moore

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. — Ian McShane

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches. — Dennis Eckersley

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right. — Kate DiCamillo

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again. — Frederick Lenz

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. — Tessa Thompson

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water. — Arthur Schopenhauer