Guinevere Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or writer of romance - glacial judgment coupled with fervent sympathy. The poet may be an uninspired illiterate, the romance-writer an uninspired hack. Under no circumstances can either of them be accused of wrongdoing or deceiving the public, however incongruous their efforts. They write well or badly, and there the matter ends. The historian, who fails in his duty, deceives the reader and wrongs the dead. — Norman Douglas

Criticism is not construction, it is observation. — George William Curtis

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got. — Wally Lamb

Language uses us as much as we use language. — Robin Lakoff

Pissy is a nice way to say bitchy, but I'm okay with it. — C.J. Ellisson

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"Not claustrophobic people, Tris. — Veronica Roth

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America. — Cornel West

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken. — Helen Oyeyemi

I got my degree in rhetoric. — Alex Borstein

Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need. — Nilakanta Sri Ram

Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

[To] Immediately ... turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God ... practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God. — Witness Lee

how much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought is traceable to the 'anti-Fascism' of the past ten years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed? — George Orwell

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away. — Sharon Salzberg

A mask of gold hides all deformities. — Thomas Dekker