Febvre Famous Quotes & Sayings

My brother was on his way
to a dental appointment
when the second plane hit
four stories below the office
where he worked. He's never
said anything about the guy
who took football bets, how
he liked to watch his secretary
walk, the friends he ate lunch with,
all the funerals. Maybe, shamed
by his luck, he keeps quiet,
afraid someone might guess
how good he feels, breathing. — Tony Gloeggler

I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.'
'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us. — L.M. Montgomery

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career. — Peter James

The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential. — Tim Kaine

Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way. — Kurt Vonnegut

Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other. — Louise Welsh

A square, flat-roofed hovel, neatly frescoed, with its wall-tops gallantly bastioned and turreted with dried camel-refuse, gives to a landscape a feature that is exceedingly festive and picturesque, especially if one is careful to remember to stick in a cat wherever, about the premises, there is room for a cat to sit. — Mark Twain

ways of prayer often call forth a kind of knowing that passes beyond clear ideas and the ordinary way of thinking. — James Finley

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? — John Green

An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims. — Dennis Prager