Harcolj Quotes & Sayings

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat. — Malcolm Gladwell

Rachel, who before her marriage had been a promising pianist, and now sat with the baby on her knee, picking out nursery tunes with one finger. Nev said it wouldn't be like that, and she believed him - or at least she believed he meant it - but it would, because marriage changed everything. It had its own logic, its own laws, and they were independent of the desires and intentions of those who entered into it. She felt a moment's pleasure in the cynicism of this perception, though God knows it was depressing enough. — Pat Barker

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again. — Robert Burchfield

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job. — Pascal Bruckner

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live. — Angel Cabrera

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. — Caio Fonseca

For apprentices everywhere - no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master — Elif Shafak

This political disorder found expression in Machiavelli Prince. In the absence of any guiding principle, politics becomes a naked struggle for power; The Prince gives shrewd advice as to how to play this game successfully. What had happened in the great age of Greece happened again in Renaissance Italy: traditional moral restraints disappeared, because they were seen to be associated with superstition; the liberation from fetters made individuals energetic and creative, producing a rare florescence of genius; but the anarchy and treachery which inevitably resulted from the decay of morals made Italians collectively impotent, and they fell, like the Greeks, under the domination of nations less civilized than themselves but not so destitute of social cohesion. — Bertrand Russell

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. — George Eliot