Herget Bank Quotes & Sayings

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work. — Marilynne Robinson

Someone who accepts that in the world as currently divided war can become inevitable, and even just, might reply that the photographs supply no evidence, none at all, for renouncing war - except to those form whom the notions of valor and sacrifice have been emptied of meaning and credibility. The destructiveness of war - short of total destruction, which is not war but suicide - is not in itself an argument against waging war unless one thinks (as few people actually do think) that violence is always unjustifiable, that force is always and in all circumstances wrong - wrong because, as Simone Weil affirms in her sublime essay on war, "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (1940), violence turns anybody subjected to it into a thing. No, retort those who in a given situation see no alternative to armed struggle, violence can exalt someone subjected to it into a martyr or hero. — Susan Sontag

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. — Jonny Greenwood

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it. — Susan Warner

As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon, — Roald Dahl