Fdla Fort Quotes & Sayings

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame. — Umberto Eco

He lived in his own special hell — Haruki Murakami

The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure. — Doug Larson

Human engagement for the storage of information in opposition to death cannot be measured with the same scales used by the natural scientist. Carbon-dating tests measure the natural time according to the information loss of specific radioactive atoms. However, the artificial time of human freedom ("historical time") cannot be measured by simply turning carbon-dating formulas around, so that they now measure the accumulation of information. — Vilem Flusser

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities — Hillary Clinton

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else are percentages of peace. — Shannon L. Alder

I only want to make movies that I believe in, that I care about and that mean something to me. At the end of the day, that's the only reason I'm doing this. Hopefully I can continue to grow and challenge myself to try to do things I've never done before, and make different kinds of movies that still maintain what makes the film my film. — Drake Doremus

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life. — John D. Rockefeller

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina. — Trey Gowdy

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. — Robert Louis Stevenson