Fleissner Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded. — Julian Assange

Emotions flickered in the amber depths, one after another, like lightning bugs winking on and off. Disgust. Anger. Mistrust. Suspicion. Curiosity. — Jennifer Estep

You're not gay, you were just being a really good friend. — Kate Sherwood

The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown. — Mark Hanna

Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.' — Solange Knowles

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual. — P. G. T. Beauregard

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course
it's our garden that is really nurturing us. — Jenny Uglow

When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But her voice was rough, like silk torn by sharp diamonds, and I believed, truly, that she wanted nothing more than to disappear into the Tower and never emerge again.
"Please, Saint Sigrid, take me in from the storm and teach me to steer through darkness, for I am lost, and I cannot see the shore."
I did not move for a long moment. Then, slowly, I reached out my hand to her and whispered, "Come, Lady, I will cut your hair for you."
Her hand slipped into mine, hard and cool. — Catherynne M Valente

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes. — John Seddon

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence. — David Graeber

You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example. — Joe Eszterhas

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test. — Kevin Warsh

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
[Woman's Day magazine, March 12, 2002] — Tracy Chevalier