Dunice Quotes & Sayings

No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, it is inexorable, it moves all things at once, and men of discrimination may understand it, predict it, benefit from it. — Neal Stephenson

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships. — Anton Chekhov

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. — Jenny Han

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again. — Eudora Welty

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life. — Dave Barry

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon. — Alexa Vega

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. — Dexter Perkins

The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The — Elie Wiesel