Drahoslav Levy Quotes & Sayings

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous. — C.S. Lewis

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. — Eugene McCarthy

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction. — George Leonard

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves. — Michael McClure

Iraq was already in the grip of a bloody insurgency against British rule. Churchill therefore called a conference in Cairo to hand over a certain amount of power to Arab rulers under British influence. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment. — Kate Morton

But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own. — Jennifer Donnelly

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! — Walter Scott

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet. — Harriet Martineau

I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right. — Tim Kaine

Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey, — Matthew Quick

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. — Art Garfunkel

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. — Samuel Beckett

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. — Claire Messud