Delport Gearbox Quotes & Sayings

I am not aware at this moment that I have lost my innocence. I will realize it many years later. One day I will look back and understand that just as there was a moment in my life when I realized where my power lay, there was also a specific moment when I stopped believing in authority just for its own sake and started coming to my own conclusions about the world I lived in. — Deborah Feldman

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Democratic periodicals in the North warned that the governor's stance would compromise highly profitable New York trade connections with Virginia and other slave states. Seward was branded "a bigoted New England fanatic." This only emboldened Seward's resolve to press the issue. He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension of fugitive slaves. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life. — Louis Sachar

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. — Harvey Pekar