Defocused Star Quotes & Sayings

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. — William Shakespeare

I love you
My life stretched over a bridge
I need you
My life stretched over you — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

[from Some words about 'War and Peace']

In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees. — Leo Tolstoy

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours. — Paul Gillmor

(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you. — Christopher Hitchens