Greathead V Quotes & Sayings

It is not cynical to admit the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added or removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and visions and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice! Do you know why the history of the Tower is in such turmoil? Because too many powerful men are fighting for the pen, fighting to write their story over our dead bodies. They know what is at stake: immortality, the character of civilization, and influence beyond the ages. They are fighting to see who gets to mislead our grandchildren. — Josiah Bancroft

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money. — Robert A. Heinlein

I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision. — Hillary Clinton

The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts. — Matt Chandler

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. — Paul Ricoeur

He who would be free must strike the first blow. — Frederick Douglass

One pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die. — William Shakespeare

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers. — David Ignatius

WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. — Susan Jeffers

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! — Ben Elton

The immortals are those who accept the greater responsibility of attending to the needs of the world not just their families. — N.K.David

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. — Joseph Jarman