Fortunates Christmas Quotes & Sayings

are you always like this, all dressed up in adrenaline, and no place to go? — Deborah Harkness

Student today don't mean na', but in a Latin America whipped into a frenzy by the Fall of Arbenz, by the Stoning of Nixon, by the Guerrillas of the Sierra Madre, by the endless cynical maneuverings of the Yankee Pig Dogs - in a Latin America already a year and half into the Decade of the Guerrilla - a student was something else altogether, an agent for change, a vibrating quantum string in the staid Newtonian universe. — Junot Diaz

It is not that liberals are not concerned about the victims of crimes. Rather, they disagree about how crime is to be minimized overall. First, the rule of law must be upheld. If the state can act like a criminal, framing innocent people and trampling on the rights of the accused, then all hope for the rule of law is lost. To keep the state and its representatives - the police and the courts - honest, the rights of everyone accused of a crime must be upheld strictly. Fairness — George Lakoff

The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.
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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. — Italo Calvino

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway

It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins. — Joe Abercrombie

Knowing your ignorance is better than your knowledge. — Debasish Mridha

Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever. — Wilson Rawls

She might not be bound to him, but she was still his Shadow Girl. — Melissa Marr

He nodded to her right forearm, not trusting himself to speak. His gloves lay on the other side of the basin, black against the gold-veined marble. They looked like dead animals. He focused on the shears, cold metal in his hands, nothing like skin. He could not do this if his hands were shaking. I can best this, he told himself. — Leigh Bardugo

I am Ragnuk, and I am going to eat you now. — Courtney Allison Moulton