Espenafiel Quotes & Sayings

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here. — Shusaku Endo

One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history. — Malcolm Muggeridge

But I still fear I'll break him, and that boy is too damn sweet and beautiful to ruin. — Jessica Sorensen

I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock. — Lester Roloff