Hewn Spirits Quotes & Sayings

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more. — Aldous Huxley

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much. — Daniel Radcliffe

The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps. — J.D. Vance

The fires of youth are not dead in old age ... only banked down. — Elizabeth Goudge

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. — Laura Linney

The career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, draws such questions to a focus that resembles the bead of a laser-gunsight on a victim's breastbone. It was Oppenheimer whom the public lionized as the brains behind the bomb; who agonized about the devastation his brilliance had helped to unleash; who hoped that the very destructiveness of the new "gadget," as the bombmakers called their invention, might make war obsolete; and whose sometime Communist fellow-traveling and opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb - a weapon a thousand times more powerful than the bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki - brought about his political disgrace and downfall, which of course have marked him in the eyes of some as all the more heroic, a visionary persecuted by warmongering McCarthyite troglodytes. His legacy, of course, is far more complicated. — Algis Valiunas