Distoritons Quotes & Sayings

In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat. It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. It was practically the same as the steel helmet which soldiers still wear, and it did not make a good mirror, but it was the best he could get. He turned the hat in various directions, hoping to get an average idea of his face from the different distoritons which the bulges made. He was trying to find out what he was, and he was afraid of what he would find.
The boy thought that there was something wrong with him. All through his life
even when he was a great man with the world at his feet
he was to feel this gap: something at the bototm of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand. There is no need for us to try to understand it. We do not have to dabble in a place which he preferred to keep secret. — T.H. White

I shake my head. White people. "It's — Simone Elkeles

Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn't make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn't soil your own hands doing. — Brandon Sanderson

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves? — Apolo Ohno

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life. — Paul David Tripp

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. — Robert Breault

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H.L. Mencken

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. — Imelda Marcos

No wonder tobacco shops have a predilection for corners, for — Vladimir Nabokov

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh. — Said Sayrafiezadeh