Emanant Quotes & Sayings

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated. We are all scandalized by the sins and failures of some of the Church's members. — Pope Benedict XVI

This was especially true of the Irish in Ireland in relation to the British, who for centuries treated them as an inferior race. Note, however, that their skin color was indistinguishable from that of those considered to be "white". If anything, the skin of most people of Irish descent is "fairer" than that of others of European heritage. But their actual complexion didn't matter, because the dominant racial group has the cultural authority to define the boundaries around "white" as it chooses. — Allan G. Johnson

The Goddess is one and even if She has many names, She's in every woman. — Laura Tolomei

The best known evil is the most tolerable. — Livy

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. Only then, when it was too late, and Paradise Pickles slumped softly to the floor without so much as a murmur or even the pretense of resistance, did Comrade Pillai realize that what he really needed was the process of war more than the outcome of victory. War could have been the stallion that he rode, part of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out.
He broke the eggs but burned the omelette. — Arundhati Roy

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly. — Henry James

The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! — J.D. Salinger

As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

In the end, what hurt the most was he got to be the one to leave and I was left holding the shattered pieces. — B.B. Reid

We've got secrets coming out our arses and you want to take them to a clairvoyant? — Cath Crowley

Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder. — Jay Leno

I was a very unique child. — Kat Dennings

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic. — Gore Vidal

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius. — Erich Von Manstein