Downhearted Softies Quotes & Sayings

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena. — Walter Dean Myers

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both. — Blaise Pascal

I'm in love with you"
Finally, the girl looks at me. "What?"
"I don't know." I gesture to the house, the yard, the dirt surrounding us. "I'm not sure what suggested romance. Maybe it was the screaming match or the way my girlfriend kicked my ass to the ground, but I love you."
Her mouth gapes. "I ... I ... "
"I don't want you to say it back now. One of us should have some class. — Katie McGarry

When we are, love is not.
When we are not, love is. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them. — Elizabeth Lowell

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. — Roger L'Estrange