Inveighed Cross Quotes & Sayings

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pacifism will rise and fall with the times. A period of weariness or one that lacks great ideas will always give it a clear field. And rightly, for when young men have no great aim before their eyes, why shold they sacrifice themselves? When they have, on the other hand, they will of their own accord be carried away by the force that quails at nothing. The proud and indisputable right of the victor to decide the world's destiny is so intoxicating a prospect to a race that does not doubt its call to greatness, that all else must appear of no account. — Ernst Junger

Like a singing river
You break out to flow freely
I am the mountain behind
Happily I watch you
Memory of us
Full and sweet — Anchee Min

Don't worry about hurting me, Jordan." She brushed back her hair again as she turned from him and headed for the bedroom. "It was too late for that a long time ago."
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"I've heard the lecture," she informed him as she glared back at him. "I've heard you tell your men how love is an illusion, and how they need to watch their backs before that illusion bites him on the ass, so many times it sickens me. Unless you have something original to add to it, then I don't want to hear it again, if you don't mind."
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"You're fooling yourself." He had to force the words past his lips. "You're letting lust and pleasure betray you. Tehya. It tricks you. When it fades, all you have left is either friendship or enmity. It's the enmity that worries me, the knowledge of all the little ways you can destroy one another with the knowledge you've gained. I don't want us to go that route. I don't want you to hate me."
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"Who ruined you before I ever had a chance at your heart? — Lora Leigh

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention. — Barbara W. Tuchman

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues. — J. William Fulbright

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional. — Joel Edgerton

Friend, have the courage
To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead. — Virgil

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri